How to Read Like a Writer: 10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice

Cover\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nPrologue: (or Brief Introduction)\n	Reading Closely and Reading Critically—the Way Writers Do\n	Lessons in Reading the Way Writers Do\n	Sample Readings and Questions\n	Reading to Generate Material\n	Getting Started: Strategies for Reading the Way Writers Do\nLesson 1 Reading Genre\n	The Concept of Genre\n	Reading Inside Genre\n	Lesson 1 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Genre\nLesson 2 Hybrids and Multi-genre Work\n	Reading beyond Genre Lines\n	Naming and Identifying Hybrid/Multi-genre Work\n	Established Hybrids\n	Emerging Hybrids: Borrowed Forms (in General) and List Forms (Specifically)\n	Reading Hybrid and Multi-genre Work: The Big Picture\n	Lesson 2 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Hybrid/Multi-genre\nLesson 3 Short Forms and Digital Media\n	Length and Short Forms\n	Digital Media Platforms for Creative Writing\n	Lesson 3 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Short-Form Writing and Digital Media\nLesson 4  Plot, Narrative Arc, Conflict, and Central Theme, Concept, Image, Sense, or Emotion\n	Narrative Forces\n	Reading for Plot, Narrative Arc, and Conflict\n	Non-narrative Forces\n	Reading for Central Theme/Concept and Resonating Image, Sense, or Emotion\n	Lesson 4 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Plot, Narrative Arc, Conflict, Central Theme, and Resonating Image\nLesson 5 Structure\n	The Concept of Structure\n	Structural Mechanics and Devices\n	Overall Structure: The Order in Which the Writing Appears on the Page\n	Braided\n	Additional Considerations for Non-narrative Creative Nonfiction Structures\n	Additional Considerations for Poetic Structures\n	Authorial Choices about Structure\n	Reading for Structure\n	Transitions\n	Image and Text\n	Reading Strategy for Structure\n	Lesson 5 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Structure\nLesson 6 Character Development\n	Getting Acquainted: Discovering Depth and Nuance\n	When the Narrator Is Also a Character\n	Exploring Character Development in Non-narrative Forms\n	Reading for Character Development: Further Considerations\n	Lesson 6 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Character Development\nLesson 7 Point of View\n	Point of View as a Lens\n	Narrator/Speaker\n	First, Second, Third\n	When the Narrator Is Also the Writer: Special Complexities of POV in Creative Nonfiction\n	When the Lens Includes Actual Images: POV in Graphic and Photographic Narrative\n	Lesson 7 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Point of View\nLesson 8 Setting\n	Place\n	Environment\n	Time\n	Constructing Setting\n	Setting in Place-Based and Environmental Literature\n	Setting in Graphic and Photographic Writing\n	Lesson 8 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Setting\nLesson 9 Scene\n	What Is Scene?\n	When Writers Use Scene\n	Short, Long, and In-between: How Much Page Space Should a Scene Use?\n	Scenic Rendering without Full Scenes\n	Scene in Visual Hybrids\n	Lesson 9 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Scene\nLesson 10 Language\n	Developing a Literary Ear: Structure, Shape, Length, and Sound\n	Sensory Language\n	Breaking the Formal Rules\n	Minding the Writerly Rules\n	Working the Language\n	Lesson 10 Discussion Questions and Writing Prompts\n	Writing Prompts: Focus on Language\nThe End (or Afterword)\nReadings\n	Additional Readings\nIndex