Think Like a Writer: How to Write the Stories You See - Softcover

Bentley, Tom R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1927967791 ISBN 13: 9781927967799

Publisher: The Write Word, 2016

Synopsis

Think Like a Writer will corral your writing ideas—and saddle up the stories you’ve always wanted to write. Do you love language, and how words work to thrill, convince, dazzle, excite? Every writer, whether a beginner or a veteran, has a combination of perspective, experience and ability that produces a point of view that’s theirs alone. Think Like a Writer supplies tools, strategies and prompts that will bring your unique perspective to life on the page. Whether you tell your stories to your children, your business partners, your customers or the world, this book can help you tell them with eloquence, power and persuasion. And in the voice that’s uniquely your own. With humor and clarity, Think Like a Writer will jump-start your writing work and writing play. Writing should be an exploration, a drawing from your well, not some clotted drudgery! (And sometimes you can even make a living doing that exploring.) Read this book, and say, “Yes!” to your creativity. Get a copy of Think Like a Writer and put your personality on the page. Read, See and Write—Now!

About this title

About the Author

Tom Bentley is a business writer and editor, an essayist, and a fiction writer. (He does not play banjo.) He’s published hundreds of freelance pieces—ranging from first-person essays to travel pieces to more journalistic subjects—in newspapers, magazines, and online. His small-press short story collection, Flowering and Other Stories, was published in the spring of 2012. His self-published book on finding and cultivating your writer’s voice, Think Like a Writer: How to Write the Stories You See was published in June of 2015. His newest novel, Aftershock, is based on three characters whose lives are tossed asunder by the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. He would like you to pour him a Manhattan right at five.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Write Word
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1927967791
• ISBN 13: 9781927967799
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244