WRITING IN A NUTSHELL

*Includes fifteen BONUS! writing exercises that you will not find in the original series. In Bird by Bird , Anne Lamott says a writer needs to focus on short assignments to avoid feeling overwhelmed. She refers to the one-inch picture frame on her desk and how it reminds her to focus on bite-sized pieces of the whole story. If you focus on one small thing at a time, the story will eventually come together to create a whole. The same applies to learning writing craft. If writers focus on one aspect of the craft at a time, the process will seem less daunting, and piece by piece, it will come together. With more than ten years experience as an editor and writer of English Language Teaching (ELT) materials for various ELT publishers worldwide, I know that breaking down language into smaller focus areas is an effective learning method. After much experimentation on myself, and volunteer aspiring writers, I discovered it is extremely effective with creative writing too. And so the Writing in a Nutshell Series was born. This book is the all-in-one edition of the three Writing in a Nutshell workbooks