Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

One of America s most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration. Writing is a craft you can learn, says Roy Peter Clark. You need tools, not rules. His book distills decades of experience into tools that will help any writer become more fluent and effective. WRITING TOOLS covers everything from the most basic Tool Watch those adverbs to the more complex Tool Turn your notebook into a camera and provides more than examples from literature and journalism to illustrate the concepts. For students, aspiring novelists, and writers of memos, e-mails, PowerPoint presentations, and love letters, here are indispensable, memorable, and usable tools. Pull out a favorite novel or short story, and read it with the guidance of Clark s ideas.