The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition

By Priscilla Long

Book Overview

Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082636005X
• ISBN13: 9780826360052
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Unm Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.2"