Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
by Francine Prose · first published 2006
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Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—[Dostoyevsky][1], [Flaubert][2], [Kafka][3], [Austen][4], [Dickens][5], [Woolf][6], [Chekhov][7]—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of [Philip Roth][8] and the breathtaki
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The following books below might be of help to you. 1. First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran - https://amzn.to/3m2Hq8N 2. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose - https://amzn.to/3dEXY3M 3. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King - https://amzn.to/3mfLFhF In terms of technical content, there is a course for technical writers on pluralsight…
on “Ask HN: Good resources on learning how to write” ↗…keep working at a sentence until it says what I want the way I want it to. But reading is absolutely essential, and reading to really understand the mechanics of how something works. Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer is a good introduction to how to do this.
on “Some thoughts on writing” ↗You can do it! https://writeofpassage.com/ In books about writing, I like: How Fiction Works Reading Like a Writer Writing With Style There are many others of course. Perhaps the most important part is finding an editor. (I wound up marrying one, which is not uncommon.) I've seen recs for Sasha Chapin: https://www.sashachapin.com/
on “20 Years of Blogging on my own website” ↗