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Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by William Cane

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Want To Find Your Voice? Learn from the Best.

Time and time again you've been told to find your own unique writing style, as if it were as simple as pulling it out of thin air. But finding your voice isn't easy, so where better to look than to the greatest writers of our time?

Write Like the Masters analyzes the writing styles of twenty-one great novelists, including Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, and Ray Bradbury. This fascinating and insightful guide shows you how to imitate the masters of literature and, in the process, learn advanced writing secrets to fire up your own work.

You'll discover:

  • Herman Melville's secrets for creating characters as memorable as Captain Ahab
  • How to master point of view with techniques from Fyodor Dostoevesky
  • Ways to pick up the pace by keeping your sentences lean like Ernest Hemingway
  • The importance of sensual details from James Bond creator Ian Fleming
  • How to add suspense to your story by following the lead of the master of horror, Stephen King

Whether you're working on a unique voice for your next novel or you're a composition student toying with different styles, this guide will help you gain insight into the work of the masters through the rhetorical technique of imitation. Filled with practical, easy-to-apply advice, Write Like the Masters is your key to understanding and using the proven techniques of history's greatest authors.

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  • Title Write Like the Masters: Emulating the Best of Hemingway, Faulkner, Salinger, and Others
  • Author William Cane
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Writer's Digest Books
  • Publication date 2009-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781582975924 / 1582975922
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.78 x 6.52 x 0.97 in (22.30 x 16.56 x 2.46 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Authorship, Fiction - Technique
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009013326
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.3

About the author

William Cane has had a distinguished career as a professor of English at CUNY and Boston College, where he helped a generation of students improve their prose by imitating great writers. Cane is the author of six books, including the international bestseller The Art of Kissing (St. Martin's), which has sold more than 100,000 copies. He is active on the college lecture circuit and has appeared on almost every major television talk show, including Today, The View, and CBS This Morning. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other publications. The author's Website is: http: //hiwrite.com. To read his blog postings, visit: http: //www.topformsecrets.com and http: //www.arsartiste.com/.

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