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Author Brande, Dorothea, 1893-1948.

Title Becoming a writer / Dorothea Brande ; foreword by John Gardner.

Imprint Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher, [1981]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.3 B733 1981    ---  Available
Description 186 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Reprint of the 1934 ed. published by Harcourt, Brace, New York.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.
Summary Describes a writer's temperament and how to develop a writer's habits, originality, and insight, imitate exemplary works, read critically, and overcome writing difficulties.
Contents Foreword by John Gardner -- In Introduction -- 1. The four difficulties -- 2. What writers are like -- 3. The advantages of duplicity -- 4. Interlude: On taking advice -- 5. Harnessing the unconscious -- 6. Writing on schedule -- 7. The first survey -- 8. The critic at work on himself -- 9. Readings as a writer -- 10. On imitation -- 11. Learning to see again -- 12. The source of originality -- 13. The writer's recreation -- 14. The practice story -- 15. The great discovery -- 16. The third person, genius -- 17. The writer's magic -- In conclusion: Some prosaic pointers.
Subject Fiction -- Technique.
Authorship.
Authorship. (OCoLC)fst00822442
Fiction -- Technique. (OCoLC)fst00923755
ISBN 0874771641
9780874771640

 
    
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