The Writer's Portable Mentor

Download or read book The Writer's Portable Mentor written by Priscilla Long and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.