4 turning-page writing craft books and terrific connected pictures
four emotions picture reflecting your state of mind when you finished reading these writing craft books according to me.
I am a writer. My world is full with short stories (maybe for the same incomparable Raymond’ reasons, meaning wonder hurry to get my story finished and to use my time at the best).
I am a freelance writer, also. My niches are personal growth, parenthood (and affiliates); creativity (and affiliates); weddings (advice, trends, tricks to survive that BIG DAY nurturing uniqueness).
I challenge myself with the biggest. Being a writer, even the most famous in the world, means you are a man. And behind this man there is always a story of struggling and overcoming. Definitely you will not find a magic dream come true so fast as this thought show up in your mind.
As far as my knowledge and my pleasure in reading writing craft books, I have set my personal top list. I used a chronological criteria.
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Murakami, The art of fiction
Well,…ehm…what can I say? As a starter, I chose the toughest one. If you have ever red this book, you know what I mean. Without beating around the bush, Murakami tell you writing is fatigue. Discipline. Endurance. To Achive. Magic.
While going across the pages you realize how you have to believe in what you think you are. You can not pretend.
It’s amused. Murakami is like a writing samurai.
You have to sweat, to reach the top.
Stephen King, On writing
After finishing reading it, I just collected these words: funny, human and wife.
Along the pages you can feel the love of a man to his woman. And how magically this love can affect his commitment to go ahead. (The more you feel supported, the much you will believe).
Even here, you will find discipline and a definition that being an artist is a part of your life, not your life itself. Hilarious pages, feeling you can hear Stephen King talking to you the whole truth about writing. Especially when reality bursts into telling. Especially when failures show up.
Want to be a writer? Let yourself lead by your story!
Anne Lamott, Bird by bird
While reading this book, It seems you can see Anne Lamotte in her real life, discovering she is human as you are.
The particularity of this boos is language: easy, friendly, sometimes stumbling into bad words,but never vulgar.
Want to be a writer? Don’t be afraid of white pages. Start writing 300 words a day. Don’t ask, go ahead. When finishing it, make your “baby” be red by a friend of you.
Bird by bird, means word by word to build your story. There is a deep consideration of human frailties. Such as envy and how to overcome it.
This is a sincere book.
Raymond Carver, Becoming a novelist _ On writing
Oh, yes. Reading a collection of articles on writing by Carver is really amazing, a part form the man (poor, young husband, too young father), you can appreciate the poet. Carvers’ short stories are long poems. You will know the beginning of his writing. Why he wrote just short stories. His fantastic synthesis: “get in. get out”. How to use words. You will find why you have not to use adverbs so often, in your writing. You will breath each word according to a logic of clearness and accuracy of expression.
You will learn how to write every day without hope and without despair.
(Do you like it?
What writing craft books did you read?)
