Book - Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Process, by Peter Elbow

Paperback, 385 pages, 1998. Excellent used condition. No rips, no marks, no dog-ears. Peter Elbow (Professor Emeritus, UMass Amherst) is one of the first proponents of "freewriting" (writing without stopping, for a specific amount of time) which was a new technique when he introduced it in 1976. Solid advice, clear and practical. "Whatever your reason for writing, Peter Elbow has a recipe to guide you. Have a limited amount of time? Spend half freewriting and half cleaning up your prose. Do you have all the time in the world and only a vague sense of what you want to say? Freewrite, then focus, then freewrite, then focus--repeatedly, until you get "a trustworthy vision of your final piece." Elbow offers a plethora of prompts for priming the creative pump, as well as several methods of revision. He pays close attention to the ways in which focusing on an audience can assist or interfere in your writing process, and there is a chapter on how strange it is to write for teachers (in which your task is "to explain what you are still engaged in trying to understand to someone who understands it better." There's also a section on how to solicit the kind of feedback you want. This new edition of a classic writing manual provides tools for every part of the process, to help a writer feel empowered." ➡️ I also have Elbow's "Writing Without Teachers" listed--bundle for savings!