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

The book’s core is how to see the world as a writer. It supplies tools to find and cultivate your writer’s voice, that unique combination of attributes—sensitivity to language, storytelling and audience—by which writers see and define the world. Think Like a Writer discusses writing at a structural level: how words work in sentences and how sentences work in stories, moving to how to use those elements and that writer’s stance to write across genres. It also addresses how to deal with writing distractions, and offers a resources section with takes on practical matters: software, hardware and links to writing resources. Stimulate your story hunting, get dizzy with language (but not so dizzy your writing wobbles), and get those stories written.(Oh, the book is funny too.)