Help! for Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.

In Help! For Writers, Roy Peter Clark presents an owner's manual for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. Help! For Writers offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Published: 01/01/2013
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.51w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780316126700
ISBN10: 0316126705
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Composition
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)

About the Author
Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.

A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.