How to Write Smarter: 30 Lessons from a Writer's Life is a great resource for aspiring and experienced authors alike. Thirty lessons contain a mixture of step-by-step instruction, sample writing, essays for further thought, and writing exercises. Tests encourage the reader to retain the principles of writing, but the book emphasizes learning-by-doing.
The reader who completes How to Write Smarter will learn both how to write better and how to write smarter.
Individual lessons, designed to take five-ten hours to complete, lay out material in four major areas:
. Introduction to Writing
. Nonfiction
. Fiction
. Poetry
Each section teaches writing basics:
. Read to learn from writing.
. Write daily.
. Definitions
. Elements
. Techniques
. Styles, genres, forms
. Editing
. Market-specific information
The companion book, the How to Write Smarter Journal, provides learners with a place to respond to writing exercises, in addition, it contains a few prompts unique to the Journal.
The final section takes the reader through the process of preparing one short piece for publication, from brainstorming to marketing and follow through.
Darlene Franklin draws from thirty years' experience of writing seventy books, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of magazine articles to divulge tricks from the writing life, from finding ideas to writing something that's publication-ready.
Advance praise for How to Write Smarter:
Darlene's writing handbook is a necessary primer for all writers, whether novice or veteran.
-----Sherri Stewart, Stewart Writing Services
In How to Write Smarter, she distills that wisdom into insights and exercises that will sharpen your writing mind.
-----Chris Tarpley, President of Oklahoma Christian Fiction Writers
The reader who completes How to Write Smarter will learn both how to write better and how to write smarter.
Individual lessons, designed to take five-ten hours to complete, lay out material in four major areas:
. Introduction to Writing
. Nonfiction
. Fiction
. Poetry
Each section teaches writing basics:
. Read to learn from writing.
. Write daily.
. Definitions
. Elements
. Techniques
. Styles, genres, forms
. Editing
. Market-specific information
The companion book, the How to Write Smarter Journal, provides learners with a place to respond to writing exercises, in addition, it contains a few prompts unique to the Journal.
The final section takes the reader through the process of preparing one short piece for publication, from brainstorming to marketing and follow through.
Darlene Franklin draws from thirty years' experience of writing seventy books, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of magazine articles to divulge tricks from the writing life, from finding ideas to writing something that's publication-ready.
Advance praise for How to Write Smarter:
Darlene's writing handbook is a necessary primer for all writers, whether novice or veteran.
-----Sherri Stewart, Stewart Writing Services
In How to Write Smarter, she distills that wisdom into insights and exercises that will sharpen your writing mind.
-----Chris Tarpley, President of Oklahoma Christian Fiction Writers
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