Several Short Sentences About Writing
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg is a distinctive guide published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on April 9, 2013. This 224-page book is designed for anyone looking to improve their writing skills or gain a clearer understanding of the writing process. Klinkenborg challenges conventional wisdom about writing, arguing that many commonly held beliefs can hinder one’s ability to express themselves effectively.
In this edition, readers will find a collection of insights aimed at helping them unlearn outdated notions about creativity, writer’s block, and structure. Klinkenborg emphasizes that writing involves thinking, noticing, and engaging with the act itself, rather than adhering to rigid rules or dogmas. This book serves as a resource for those interested in language arts and style manuals, offering practical guidance for personal and practical writing endeavors.
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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.
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