Susan M. Tiberghien
Autor de One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft
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Obras de Susan M. Tiberghien
Writing Toward Wholeness 2 copias
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Two Worlds Walking: Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Writers of Mixed Heritages (1996) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
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Conocimiento común
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- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Geneva, Switzerland
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- #85,899
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- 3.6
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I felt as I read through it that I will actually get somewhere with my writing. I’m not saying that I thought I’d magically become a published author at the end of a year. Instead, I felt like I knew what she was talking about in her instructions because of the clear descriptions backed up by great examples.
A huge plus in the book is that she covers so many different types of writing working through journal writing, personal essays, opinion and travel essays, short stories and the short-short, dreams and writing, dialogue, folk, fairy and contemporary tales, poetic prose and the prose poem, and memoir. She includes checklists for rewriting and editing. It is a treasure trove for beginning writers as well as experienced writers.
I read this book straight through for a couple of different reasons. I had already begun it earlier and gotten bogged down by the first drawing exercise and decided to make it part of my 50 books for 2010 so that I would never get back to it again because I believed this book had much to offer that I’d never find if allowed to sit on a shelf. Also, I wanted to try something new with this particular instructional book and not just begin with instructions. I wanted to try blasting through the work and see what it had to offer before doing the work and I discovered that I may try that from now on. Seeing how much great stuff lies ahead, I cannot wait to go back and dive into my writing actually utilizing her techniques. (Though I admit that the drawing exercises may still bog me down!)… (más)