Want to know how to write more powerfully? “Word Up!” serves up tips and insights for anyone who wants to know how to write with umph. This book does what too few writing books do: it practices while preaching, shows while telling, uses powerful writing to talk about powerful writing.
An eclectic collection of essays, more inspiration guide than style guide, “Word Up!” explores the perplexities and celebrates the pleasures of the English language. It leaves you smiling—and ready to conquer your next blank (or blah) page.
Targeted Age Group:
18 and older
Writers who write about writing have to watch their p’s and q’s! The challenge: to say the same old things in fresh, new ways that bring writing tips to life. That’s why I chose the essay format. I make writing tips personal and engaging. I had a ball doing it, thanks to my many readers who kept me honest about what worked for them.
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Write, write, and write some more.
Author Bio:
When Marcia was twelve, “American Girl” magazine printed her eight-paragraph story, “The Key,” and paid her $15. She has been writing ever since.
To share her love of writing, she has collected some one-of-a-kind essays into a book: “Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them).”
At Lake Forest College, she wrote one-act plays that were performed on the campus stage, learned from, and buried. She studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff in the Syracuse University creative-writing program. She taught technical writing in the Engineering School at Cornell University. She has done writing of all kinds for organizations of all kinds, from the Fortune 500 to the just plain fortunate.
Marcia has written for the scholarly journal “Shakespeare Quarterly,” the professional journal “Technical Communication,” the weekly newspaper “Syracuse New Times,” and that user guide you used last week and didn’t swear at. She used to write letters by the boxful. She has contributed posts to her daughter’s Peace Corps blog, texts to her son’s Droid, and answers to her husband’s crossword puzzles. Her words have landed on billboards, blackboards, birthday cakes, boxes of eggs, and the back of her book. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
What Inspired You to Write Your Book?I love writing–both doing it and reading about it. I believe in the importance of good writing skills, and I want to help writers strengthen those skills (and have a good time doing it).
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