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A Writer's Coach
“Wise, practical, and smart, A Writer’s Coach is an exceptional book, offering advice with good humor and great insight. Jack Hart’s approach to the writing process will engage you while you’re learning, console you when you’re stuck, and, best of all, inspire you to be a better writer.”
–Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief

“A landmark book. A Writer’s Coach gets behind the mystique and shows how the successful writer thinks his or her way through stories. It will remove much of the pain, fear, and confusion from a writer’s life. With Jack Hart as your guide, the writing process just makes good sense.”
–Jon Franklin, author of Writing for Story

“Jack Hart is the nation’s finest coaching editor and teacher, and his book towers above others of its kind. A hands-on guide remarkable for its completeness, its clarity, and its passion, A Writer’s Coach is an instant classic.”
–William E. Blundell, author of The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

“No newspaper editor in America has done more to inspire good writing than Jack Hart. With this book, his wisdom is now available to writers of all ages.”
–Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar, The Poynter Institute, and author of Writing Tools

“At last, writers who have not had the opportunity to work with Jack Hart can benefit from his legendary skills as an editor. A Writer’s Coach will be a godsend for reporters and editors.”
–Stuart Warner, writing coach and enterprise editor, Chicago Tribune

“No one has a better command of good writing than Jack Hart. He pays attention to the tiniest details as well as the large concepts–and no concept is too big or too complex. His coaching has produced generations of fine writers. His book will help generations more.”
–Amanda Bennett, editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer


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Title of ebook: A Writer's Coach
ISBN: 9780375424397
parent-ISBN: 9780375423277
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Published: 08-2006
Released online for download: 08-22-2006
Author of eBook: Hart, Jack

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A Writer's Coach


Chapter One

The Agony and the Methodology

The pain of writing is legend. And its intensity hardly varies between the student facing a term-paper deadline, the office worker thrashing out a report, and the seasoned professional writing for publication.

When I run a writing seminar, I usually hand out a questionnaire that, among other things, quizzes the participants about the emotion they bring to their writing. They like to quote Dorothy Parker, the New York literary wit who said she hated writing, but loved having written. "It's agony and ecstasy," one writer said. "When I get the idea, and when I'm finished . . . it's joyful. Everything in between is agony."

Why should that be? Physically, writing's relatively easy work. Take it from a guy who's loaded log ships, pumped gas, and tarred roofs in the midsummer sun. Writers work on their butts and out of the weather. So what's with all this whining?

And why the avoidance, which one writer labeled "tap dancing"? "I'll dance around the story," he said, "putting it off because I think it's harder than it invariably is."

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