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Write better : a lifelong editor on craft, art, and spirituality / Andrew T. Le Peau.

by Le Peau, Andrew T., 1952- author.

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Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2019]

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Authorship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

9780830845699 (paperback) :

0830845690 (paperback)

272 pages ; 21 cm.

Part one. The craft of writing. Finding an opening -- Knowing your audience -- Giving structure -- The character of persuasion -- The craft of persuasion -- Creating dramatic nonfiction -- Cracking our writer's block -- The nuts, bolts, hammers, and saws of good rewriting -- We remember endings first -- Titles that work.

Part two. The art of writing. Creativity, the mysterious muse -- Breaking the rules -- The key to powerful prose-tone -- For the love of metaphor -- Less is more.

Part three. The spirituality of writing. Called to write -- The quest for voice -- The spirituality of writing about yourself -- Spiritual authority and writing -- The courage to create and let go -- Stewards with a message.

Appendices. Get thee to a platform -- Editors and agents do make cowards of us all -- The coauthor doth protest too much, methinks -- To self-publish or not to self-publish -- The copyright's the thing.

Provides a primer on nonfiction writing, offering insights Le Peau has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering on hundreds of writers. He discusses skills that writers can master--from finding strong openings and closings, to focusing on an audience, to creating a clear structure, to crafting a persuasive message. With wide-ranging examples from fiction and nonfiction, Le Peau also demystifies aspects of art in writing such as creativity, tone, and metaphor. He considers strategies that can move writers toward fresher, more vital, and perhaps more beautiful expressions of the human condition. One aspect of writing that rarely receives attention is who we are as writers and how writing itself changes us. Self-doubt, fear of criticism, downsides of success, questions of authority, and finding our voice are all a part of the exploration of our spirituality as writers found in these pages. --Adapted from publisher description.

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