How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.

In How to Write Short, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill.

Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, How to Write Short guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.

Author: Roy Peter Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780316204323
ISBN10: 0316204323
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Composition
- 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.