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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Writing like a writer is about craft and means gaining absolute control over your material and your tools. It means for instance knowing when to use dialogue and when to summarize discourse learning how to use adjec- tives and adverbs that is sparingly and concentrating on the specific rather than the vague and abstract. It means anchoring your story in a par- ticular time and place; beginning writers often neglect to supply basic and crucial information: Who are these characters? Where are they? When is this story taking place? Thinking like a writer is more complex because it involves the uncon- scious. You can rely just so much on your five senses; after that you must call on curiosity imagination and skepticism-an open attitude not to be confused with cynicism. Skepticism obliges you to look beneath the obvi- ous to get at the true meaning of say a smile a crying jag or a burst of anger. Things in other words are rarely what they seem. The writer must “think” his or her way past seems to is. We have included exercises that ask you to assume the voice of the op- posite gender to search for subtext and to supply several scenarios leading up to the same event-in other words to enhance that intuitive quality of mind possessed by all good fiction writers. PAMELA PAINTER: The exercises in What If? are also meant to set something in motion. Each exercise is designed to help you to think in new ways to discover your own material to enrich the texture and language of your fiction and to move steadily toward final meaning. And coming full circle to help you begin again. No matter how widely published a writer is there is always the need to begin again. (SP)