Air & light & time & space : how successful academics write /
This book is a guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The house of writing
- Introduction: Building the BASE
- Part I. Behavioral habits: Finding time to write
- The power of place
- Rhythms and rituals
- Part II. Artisanal habits: Learning to write
- The craft of writing
- The other tongue
- Part III. Social habits: Writing for others
- Writing with others
- Writing among others
- Part IV. Emotional habits: The pleasure principle
- Risk and resilience
- Metaphors to write by
- Conclusion: Raising the roof
- Afterword: Beyond the house of writing