Stein on Writing: A Master Editor Shares His Craft, Techniques, and Strategies
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0002P0DAK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 387 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. It is a book of usable solutions--how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place." With examples from bestsellers as well as from students' drafts, Stein offers detailed sections on characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, trimming away flabby wording, the so-called "triage" method of revision, using the techniques of fiction to enliven nonfiction, and mo
Kym McNabney said THE BEST YET. STEIN ON WRITING by SOL STEIN is clearly to date the most impactful book on writing I've read. If you were to glance inside my copy you'd find dog-eared pages, highlights galore, asterisks, and notes written throughout.STEIN ON WRITING is precise information, right to the point with useful examples. The language isn't over the top. A must read for writers at any stage of their journey, but especially for those new to the craft and unpublished.Here are a few notes I took pertaining to specific areas of the book:Page 8 - Feelings, no facts.Page "THE BEST YET" according to Kym McNabney. STEIN ON WRITING by SOL STEIN is clearly to date the most impactful book on writing I've read. If you were to glance inside my copy you'd find dog-eared pages, highlights galore, asterisks, and notes written throughout.STEIN ON WRITING is precise information, right to the point with useful examples. The language isn't over the top. A must read for writers at any stage of their journey, but especially for those new to the craft and unpublished.Here are a few notes I took pertaining to specific areas of the book:Page 8 - Feelings, no facts.Page 20 - Must grasp/shock in first sentence and or paragraph.Page THE BEST YET STEIN ON WRITING by SOL STEIN is clearly to date the most impactful book on writing I've read. If you were to glance inside my copy you'd find dog-eared pages, highlights galore, asterisks, and notes written throughout.STEIN ON WRITING is precise information, right to the point with useful examples. The language isn't over the top. A must read for writers at any stage of their journey, but especially for those new to the craft and unpublished.Here are a few notes I took pertaining to specific areas of the book:Page 8 - Feelings, no facts.Page 20 - Must grasp/shock in first sentence and or paragraph.Page 36 - The first. 6 - The first. 0 - Must grasp/shock in first sentence and or paragraph.Page THE BEST YET STEIN ON WRITING by SOL STEIN is clearly to date the most impactful book on writing I've read. If you were to glance inside my copy you'd find dog-eared pages, highlights galore, asterisks, and notes written throughout.STEIN ON WRITING is precise information, right to the point with useful examples. The language isn't over the top. A must read for writers at any stage of their journey, but especially for those new to the craft and unpublished.Here are a few notes I took pertaining to specific areas of the book:Page 8 - Feelings, no facts.Page 20 - Must grasp/shock in first sentence and or paragraph.Page 36 - The first. 6 - The first. Dan Glover said Good Stuff Here. Whether you're an advanced writer or a beginner, you can get a lot of information by studying this book, though really, I think Stein On Writing is more geared toward the serious side of writing. Mr. Stein leads the reader through a plethora of pitfalls and landmines that writers must traverse if they're to come out safely on the other side and he does it with flair and examples.. Buy it. Read it. If you are deciding whether to buy this book or not, buy it. Read it. Yes, you can find some of this material in other books. But, Sol has a unique perspective on this and it is worth spending time with this book. There are some chapters that are exceptionally well done and I wished that they were longer -- Chapter 11 on dialog, for example. There are also parts of other chapters that seem to drag those out forever! The chapter on resonance was somewhat interesting, but I could not relate to most of the examples Sol presented. Possibly, if I was as intimate with the works Sol talked about as he was, those chapter exam
He uses an excerpt from E.L. He is authoritative and commanding--neither cheerleader nor naysayer. But with Stein's lively guidance, it is a pleasure. Instead, he rails against mediocrity and demands that you expunge it from your work. Your job, says Stein, "is to give readers stress, strain, and pressure. Stein's bottom line is that good writing must be suspenseful. Stein recommends that you brew conflict in your prose by giving your characters different "scripts." He challenges you, in an exercise concerning voice, to write the sentence you want the world to remember you by. Auden, and Lionel Trilling--offers "usable solutions" for any writing problem you may encounter. The fact is that readers who hate those things in life love them in fiction." --Jane Steinberg. "The best reading experiences," says Sol Stein, "defy interruption." With Stein's a