By Joan Bolker
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Writing is a solitary sport—but none folks can do it with out reliable corporation at the most important moments. This lively choice of inspiring and precious essays and workouts at the craft of writing is the subsequent neatest thing to having an skilled author at your part.
These twenty-nine items, greater than 1/2 that have by no means been released in e-book shape, comprise choices as strange and various as behaviorist
- B. F. Skinner's "How to find What you might want to Say";
- Brett Candlish Millier's research of the seventeen drafts of Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art";
- Ursula Le Guin's "Where Do You Get Your rules From?";
- Anne Eisenberg's "E-Mail and the recent Epistolary Age";
- and Nancy Mair's "The Writer's skinny dermis and Faint Heart."
Other individuals contain Gloria Naylor, Stanley Kunitz, Bernard Shaw, Natalie Goldberg, Anne Tyler, Rita Dove, Peter Elbow, and Gail Godwin.
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