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Chargement... The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fictionpar Stephen Koch
   Craft Books (31) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  nimishg | Apr 12, 2023 |   It not a beginner's book, though. You need some mileage behind you to extract significant value from it, else you'll end up with too much information to process which will bog you down. My least best chapter was Inventing Your Style. This felt a bit arm-wavy, though it provides plenty of examples and stresses the importance of style. The chapter redeems itself with a short section on readability at its end. "What really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude." The most valuable chapter I found to be Working and Reworking; a lecture on early drafts and the techniques of revision. It's also the most prescriptive part of the book, and, for anyone who has wrangled a first draft into submission (or failed to!), the most instructive. Koch's knowledge and experience is evident on each page, as is his steady, encouraging, relaxed voice. The book is a masterclass that every writer will benefit from reading. (  ) ortgard | Sep 22, 2022 | )2  WordMaven | Jan 27, 2010 |  )2 rosencrantz79 | Apr 2, 2007 | )1 Kerian | Jan 11, 2007 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Nothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the craft talk about the writing life. But if you can't get Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez together at the Algonquin, The Modern Library Writer's Workshop gives you the next best thing. Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University's graduate creative writing program, presents a unique guide to the craft of fiction. Along with his own lucid observations and commonsense techniques, he weaves together wisdom, advice, and inspiring commentary from some of our greatest writers. Taking you from the moment of inspiration (keep a notebook with you at all times), to writing a first draft (do it quickly! you can always revise later), to figuring out a plot (plot always serves the story, not vice versa), Koch is a benevolent mentor, glad to dispense sound advice when you need it most. The Modern Library Writer's Workshop belongs on every writer's shelf, to be picked up and pored over for those moments when the muse needs a little help finding her way. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It seems to be full of wisdom that makes sense in retrospect or maybe summarizes intuitions that an intermediate-writer might have been struggling to make, and I think an intermediate writer might get a lot more out of this than I did.
As an actual total beginner, though, it's a little all over the place. I was able to get a few really nice solid stand-alone tips out of it, but I feel like it was lots of tips for problems I haven't encountered yet as opposed to 'how to begin'.
Still, it is deeply encouraging (except for a random chapter close to the beginning which is deliberately discouraging for 'realism') and full of the writer's personal musing so you kind of get the idea of what he's feeling and has felt while engaging in writing and generally seems positive. (