Several Short Sentences About Writing (Us Pb)

Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg, PH.D.

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  • : $35.00 AUD
  • : 9780307279415
  • : Vintage Books
  • : Vintage Books
  • : April 2013
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  • : Verlyn Klinkenborg, PH.D.
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Description

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg.
Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In "Several Short Sentences About Writing," he sets out to help us unlearn that "wisdom"--about genius, about creativity, about writer's block, topic sentences, and outline--and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression.

Author description

Verlyn Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board of "The""New York Times, " to which he also contributes meditations about his farm in upstate New York, collected in "The Rural Life." His other books include "Making Hay, ""The Last Fine Time, " and "Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile." Klinkenborg has a Ph.D. in English literature from Princeton University.