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Writing Your Way: Creating a Writing Process That Works for You
by
Don Fry
Writers write the way they were taught, which may not suit them at all, making their writing slow, painful, and not what they want to say. Writing Your Way shows you how to create your own unique writing process that magnifies your strengths and avoids your weaknesses. It shows you a multitude of ways to do the five key stages: Idea, Gather, Organize, Draft, and Revise. Yo...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
March 13th 2012
by Writer's Digest Books
(first published February 13th 2012)
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The impression I got from the promotion material for this book was that it would help me my writing process in fiction. I suppose I should have caught that it didn't say what kind of writing it was referring to -- it's freelance writing. There's a nod to novelists, but that's a different kind of writing with different requirements. I didn't get anything from it to help me with my weaknesses and magnify my strengths, as the promotion said.
However, the book did discuss some interesting concepts. I...more
However, the book did discuss some interesting concepts. I...more
Like many others, I came to this book as a long form, fiction writer, so I found little of use in it. The writer does say, in the first chapter, that the information should apply to all writers, but very little of it does - which is fine.
I gave it 2 stars, not because it didn't apply to me, but because I felt that, even for feature writers, it tries to be too much for too wide an audience. If the reader needs to be told that he needs to have an idea, get his grammar right and research his artic...more
I gave it 2 stars, not because it didn't apply to me, but because I felt that, even for feature writers, it tries to be too much for too wide an audience. If the reader needs to be told that he needs to have an idea, get his grammar right and research his artic...more
Don Fry begins his wise and practical book of writing advice this way: “Here’s a radical idea: You can escape your teachers. You can write in ways suited to you, rather than ways you were taught.”
In “Writing Your Way,” he offers hundreds upon hundreds of the writing tools complied over a lifetime of teaching, of careful reading, and of observing the professional writers who flock to him for advice. And then he demonstrates how to make use of the ones that work for YOU while ignoring the rest.
Gre...more
In “Writing Your Way,” he offers hundreds upon hundreds of the writing tools complied over a lifetime of teaching, of careful reading, and of observing the professional writers who flock to him for advice. And then he demonstrates how to make use of the ones that work for YOU while ignoring the rest.
Gre...more
In the first portion of the book, Fry covers:
Writing Process
1. Idea
2. Gather
3. Organize
4. Draft
5. Revise
The second portion of the book covers creating your writing voice.
I didn't feel like I came away from this book with a clear plan for creating a writing process that works for me.
Writing Process
1. Idea
2. Gather
3. Organize
4. Draft
5. Revise
The second portion of the book covers creating your writing voice.
I didn't feel like I came away from this book with a clear plan for creating a writing process that works for me.
There is a lot of valuable information in this book. Unfortunately, I did not really see how a lot of it applied to me. The main focus of the book appears to be on improving writing for people who write articles, biographies, interviews, and the like. None of it, while practical, felt like it could be applied to fiction writing, at least, that's what I thought.
Basically skimmed this for now, but am annotating this so I remember to find it again. Contains useful advice for arriving at a method of writing that is unique to you.
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