false 16887 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 16887 2 2180801 1995 How to Write: Advice and Reflections total:23|5:7|4:10|3:6|2:0|1:0| 23 93 39 6 10263 4.15 1388 265 59687896 2418239 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 5 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 21:05:49 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:46:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 58735175 426277 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 5 0 false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Jun 07 07:24:32 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 07:24:32 -0700 2009 55429398 2299832 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 3 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Fri May 08 18:40:41 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 11:22:40 -0700 2009 37620567 328157 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 09:15:53 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 20:37:52 -0800 2008 19323787 45360 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 5 0 false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 16:22:22 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 16:24:14 -0700 2008 4706450 35136 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 5 0 false Fri Aug 17 13:56:50 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:42:42 -0800 2009 81537500 2305881 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 0 0 false Sat Dec 19 22:31:17 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 22:31:17 -0800 2009 75042290 307051 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:03:28 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:07:24 -0700 2009 69321691 2665853 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 4 0 false Sat Aug 29 07:48:11 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 07:48:20 -0700 2009 66254027 1806081 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 4 0 false Sun Nov 08 10:47:44 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 04 22:10:39 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 10:47:44 -0800 2009 64033538 2536901 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 0 0 false Sat Jul 18 18:07:32 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 18:07:39 -0700 2009 59134925 2184154 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 0 0 false Wed Jun 10 07:20:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 07:20:44 -0700 2009 55431935 2169821 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 0 0 false Fri May 08 19:11:56 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 19:11:56 -0700 2009 52001952 1028886 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 4 0 false Fri May 15 18:51:45 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 18:04:20 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 18:51:45 -0700 2009 50590232 2090711 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 0 0 false Fri Mar 27 00:55:23 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 00:55:23 -0700 2009 48882473 648142 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 4 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Tue Mar 10 21:31:13 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 21:31:29 -0700 2009 48754910 2111966 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 4 0 false Mon Mar 09 19:14:27 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 19:14:27 -0700 2009 44596901 885151 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 3 0 false Tue Jan 27 20:47:27 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 20:47:27 -0800 2009 41573128 985481 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

]]> 1995 0 0 false Thu Jan 01 23:53:58 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 23:53:58 -0800 2009 37120749 1325607 16887 0688149480 9780688149482 6 <![CDATA[How to Write: Advice and Reflections]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878m/16887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761878s/16887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16887.How_to_Write_Advice_and_Reflections 4.04 23 How to Write, "you can." That is not to say it will be easy. Rhodes is the author of short and long works of fiction and "verity" (he dislikes the word nonfiction, because it defines such a broad range of writing by what it is not), including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize. "Even now," he discloses, "all these books and articles later, writing often feels to me like groping in darkness along a wall."

While Rhodes has much solid advice about the grit one must bring to the writing life--"the best remedy for fear of writing ... is ... ass to chair"--it is his analogies about writing that are most refreshing. "Writing is a craft," he says. "I mean craft strictly: like carpentry or pottery, writing is handmade. Like other crafts as well, writing can sometimes be organized to the special depth and resonance people call art." Elsewhere, Rhodes compares structuring a work of writing to generalship. "A general," he writes, "needs to know what troops and weapons he commands and how they're deployed, but he also needs to develop a strategy for fighting battles and winning the war. The battles probably won't go as he plans, of course. If his strategy is sufficiently flexible, he'll be able to adapt it to circumstances and still come out victorious." And finally, he says, "writing is always like scuba diving, a descent as deep as you can or dare to go, given your capacity and your level of skill."

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