Book Review: How to Write Like A Writer

 

How to Write Like a Writer

A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice

by Thomas C. Foster

Pub Date 06 Sep 2022

 Harper Perennial and Paperbacks,  Harper Perennial

 Nonfiction (Adult)  |  Reference 

I am reviewing a copy of How to Write Like a Writer through Harper Perenial and Netgalley:

Written by the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.

In How to Write Like A Writer, Thomas C Foster combines anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. 

How to Write Like A Writer you’ll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit.

Foster shows you how to get into (and over) your best self, how to find your voice, and how to know when, if ever, a piece of work is done with warmth and width.

This book is packed with delightful anecdotes highlighted with lists and bullet points, this invaluable guide reveals how writers work their magic, and reminds us that we all for better or worse, whether we mean to or not are known by what we put on paper or screen, both our thoughts and our words.

I give How to Write Like A Writer five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!