Writing with Pleasure (eBook)

Helen Sword (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22941-6 (ISBN)

Infos

An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write.Acclaimed international writing expert Helen Sword invites you to step into your "e;WriteSPACE"e;-a space of pleasurable writing that is socially balanced, physically engaged, aesthetically nourishing, creatively challenging, and emotionally uplifting. Sword weaves together cutting-edge findings in the sciences and social sciences with compelling narratives gathered from nearly six hundred faculty members and graduate students from across the disciplines and around the world. She provides research-based principles, hands-on strategies, and creative "e;pleasure prompts"e; designed to help you ramp up your productivity and enhance the personal rewards of your writing practice. Whether you're writing a scholarly article, an administrative email, or a love letter, this book will inspire you to find delight in even the most mundane writing tasks and a richer, deeper pleasure in those you already enjoy.Exuberantly illustrated by prizewinning graphic memoirist Selina Tusitala Marsh, Writing with Pleasure is an indispensable resource for academics, students, professionals, and anyone for whom writing has come to feel like a burden rather than a joy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Reihe/Serie: Skills for Scholars
• Illustrationen: Selina Tusitala Marsh
• Zusatzinfo: 40 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: a love letter • an administrative email • be a better writer • books about writing • compelling narratives • creatively challenging • Creative Space • Creative Writing • Essential Guide • hands-on strategies • helen sword • how to make writing fun • how to write • illustrated by prizewinning graphic memoirist • learning how to write • learn to write • make writing fun • personal writing • pleasurable writing • Princeton University Press • professional writing • research-based principles • scholarly article • Selina Tusitala Marsh • skills for scholars • WriteSPACE • writing prompts • Writing skills • Writing with Pleasure
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22941-4 / 0691229414
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22941-6 / 9780691229416