The Best of Dr. JAC
by Joyce Armstrong Carroll
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Writers rule! You rule when you have control over your writing. To gain control is to develop skill in ways to craft your writing to clarify your meaning. One way to develop that skill is to use Dr. JAC's Guide. This book is not simply a handy helpmeet to get you started on a writing journey-it is a manageable manual for you to use to hone, polish, and deepen what you have already written. Carroll discusses voice and coherence, presenting her "chains" as glue: vocabulary chains, sustained thought chains, metaphoric chains. You also will find all kinds of workable strategies: depth charging, thought bubbles, framing, tampering with time. When did you last explore exemplum in relation to your writing? Have you worked up alternate leads? Sure you try for imagery, but have you considered euphony and cacophony? Dr. JAC's Guide is just that-a guide. It leads and ushers while it helps you hold the reins of your writing. It also advises, counsels, instructs, and recommends. Further, it points out, directs, signals, and proposes. It is both exemplar by offering models and facilitator by offering tips. It is concise but not confusing, thoughtful but not ponderous, practical but not pedestrian. When you sit with your writing; it will sit beside you.