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Rebecca McClanahan's tenth book, The Tribal Knot, a multi-generational memoir, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2013. Other books include The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, winner of the Glasgow Prize in nonfiction, and Deep Light: New and Selected Poems. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, and numerous anthologies. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize in fiction and the Wood Prize from Poetry, McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop.
Please visit her website at www.mcclanmuse.com
If I were fully conscious of my surroundings at this moment, I would describe the light through the miniblinds, the way it searches out the apples in the glass bowl, buffing them to an unnatural sheen. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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How to write with the rigth words,
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This review is from: Word Painting (Paperback)
If you write and think that you know how to write--think again. Word painting is going to set you straight--you won't believe what you didn't know.Proper description is going to take your level of writing from amateur to professional. This book explains it all: it takes you from observing and using your inner eye to getting it down on paper; it explains how to use your nose,mouth, hand and ear;bringing characters to life;how point of view affects discription;descriptions of settings;and how discription shapes the narrative line and much, much more.The core of good writing is description, and that's called Word Painting.
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For a More Picturesque Use of Language,
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This review is from: Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively (Hardcover)
Toward More Picturesque LanguageJust as all boats rise with the tide, Ms. McClanahan's book, Word Painting, has the power to elevate the writing process for all those who would apply her insight and skillful direction. I intend to have it at my elbow as I write. It is a valuable resource - not only for me, but I will be happy to pass its precepts on to my students.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Severely bloated,
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This review is from: Word Painting (Paperback)
I have read other books that have a chapter covering description that are very concise. I guess I was hoping to get more of the same from Word Painting. Instead there is so much rambleing it is hard to pick out the key points. I don't have time to read random observations and at nearly 250 pages I bet you don't either. I would much rather talk a walk in the rain.
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