Writing with power
by Peter Elbow · first published 1981
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A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really notdifficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. I
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…able to muster enough courage to claim those. On the other-hand is Cory Doctorow who is able to use these 20 minutes time blocks[1]. On the problem of not able to finish. I think Peter Elbow in his book Writing with Power[2] suggests many different strategies but they basically boils down to separating writing from editing. One technique he suggests is to divide the available time into 2 parts. Write uninhibited during…
on “What Is The Morning Writing Effect?” ↗For those interested in learning more about this method, Peter Elbow is the relevant author. His books Writng without Teacher and Writing with Power go into more details.
on “A blogging style guide” ↗A good book in this vein is Writing With Power.
on “Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft” ↗