Good Prose
The Art of Nonfiction
by Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd · first published 2013
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From the inside flap: ...Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience--their mistakes as well as accomplishments--to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction authors, for models and instruction....
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…Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King (really!) The Practice of Writing, by David Lodge The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, by Phillip Lopate 3. As already mentioned upthread, practice. Write something every day.…
on “Why I Left Medium” ↗Read the following books: - On Writing Well by William Zissner - Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg - The Elements of Style, 4th Edition by Strunk & White - Good Prose by Kidder & Todd - Wordcraft by Jack Hart - Storycraft by Jack Hart - The Art and Craft of Feature Writing by William Blundell - The Art and Craft of Storytelling by Nancy Lamb
on “Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?” ↗