Full name: Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively

Author: Rebecca McClanahan Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582970257 1582970254

Let Rebecca McClanahan guide you through an inspiring examination of description in its many forms. With her thoughtful instruction and engaging exercises, you'll learn to develop your senses and powers of observation to uncover the rich, evocative words that accurately portray your mind's images. McClanahan includes dozens of descriptive passages written by master poets and authors to illuminate the process. She also teaches you how to weave writing together using description as a unifying thread. Similar books: Structuring Your Novel by K. M. Weiland Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg Writing Past Dark by Bonnie Friedman Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing by Evan Marshall Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular by L. Rust Hills A Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark Thunder and Lightning by Natalie Goldberg The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes Room to Write by Bonni Goldberg For Writers Only by Sophy Burnham Creating Characters by Dwight V. Swain Between the Lines by Jessica Morrell Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyon Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain Story Engineering by Larry Brooks