| Title | : | Writing with Pleasure (Skills for Scholars, 11) |
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| ISBN | : | 0691191778 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780691191775 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 |
| Publication | : | Published February 7, 2023 |
Writing should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write.
Acclaimed international writing expert Helen Sword invites you to step into your "WriteSPACE"--a space of pleasurable writing that is socially balanced, physically engaged, aesthetically nourishing, creatively challenging, and emotionally uplifting. Sword weaves together cutting-edge findings in the sciences and social sciences with compelling narratives gathered from nearly six hundred faculty members and graduate students from across the disciplines and around the world. She provides research-based principles, hands-on strategies, and creative "pleasure prompts" designed to help you ramp up your productivity and enhance the personal rewards of your writing practice. Whether you're writing a scholarly article, an administrative email, or a love letter, this book will inspire you to find delight in even the most mundane writing tasks and a richer, deeper pleasure in those you already enjoy.
Exuberantly illustrated by prizewinning graphic memoirist Selina Tusitala Marsh, Writing with Pleasure is an indispensable resource for academics, students, professionals, and anyone for whom writing has come to feel like a burden rather than a joy.
Writing with Pleasure (Skills for Scholars, 11) Reviews
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While this definitely might be helpful for someone a little earlier in their writing journey (or someone who isn't writing fiction), I personally found it to be very surface-level. It felt like the author was outsourcing to all the interview snippets she collected, instead of making a case herself. It also felt like it could have been a lot shorter and to-the-point.
To each their own - it's certainly not a *bad* book, and if you're just dipping your toe into the world of writing and trying to build a practice, it'll probably be helpful for you. But if you've been in the trenches for a while and were hoping for something to kick you out of a rut (like me), I'm not sure this is the book for you. -
While this is intended to help scholars and academics find a path to enjoy writing -- particularly about their fields -- I found many of the ideas something I could distill to my own students and into my own creative writing. This is far more of a "big picture" write-up than a focus on smaller details. If you are running out of gas teaching writing or running out of gas just writing, this book is for you.
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Read with pleasure – now to put it into practice…
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