num_pages: 224
description: Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. Its the harmful debris of your educationa mixture of half-truths myths and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach to writing that will change the way you work and think. There is no gospel no orthodoxy no dogma in this book. What youll find here isnt the way to write. Instead youll find a way to clear your mind of illusions about writing and discover how you write. Several Short Sentences About Writing is a book of first steps and experiments. They will revolutionize the way you think and perceive and they will change forever the sense of your own authority as a writer. This is a book full of learning but its also a book full of unlearninga way to recover the vivid rhythmic poetic sense of language you once possessed. An indispensable and unique book that will give you a clear understanding of how to think about what you do when you write and how to improve the quality of your writing.
language: English
title: Several Short Sentences About Writing
publisher: Knopf