[stylist] Bookshare Book: "On Writing"

Brenda bjnite at windstream.net
Tue Oct 11 12:58:02 UTC 2011


Isn't there a book by Stephen King with the same title?
brenda

On 10/11/2011 7:53 AM, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi,
> This book may be useful.
>
> On Writing
> Eudora Welty
>
> Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers
> have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers
> in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, and which every fiction writer should know, such as place, voice,
> memory, and language. But even more important is what Welty calls "the mystery" of fiction writing--how the writer assembles language and ideas to create
> a work of art. Originally part of her larger work The Eye of the Story but never before published in a stand-alone volume, On Writing is a handbook every
> fiction writer, whether novice or master, should keep within arm's reach. Like The Elements of Style, On Writing is concise and fundamental, authoritative
> and timeless--as was Eudora Welty herself. From the Hardcover edition.
>
> http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/380723
>
> Jim
> Jim Homme,
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