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Barbara Baig

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http://www.wherewriterslearn.com

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Writing How To, Nonfiction

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I am a writer who is passionate about teaching writing--something I've done for thirty years. I started out working with undergraduates and graduate students (I created the popular Writing Workshops at Harvard Divinity School), then moved on to teaching working adults and aspiring creative writers.I now teach in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.

My teaching journey has been focused on the questions: What makes someone a good writer? How do I help aspiring writers to improve? After much thought, I arrived at the idea that writers need to practice their skills, just like athletes and musicians. I've developed a teaching approach that is entirely skills-based, and grounded in the findings of scientific researchers in the ...more

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	How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play 3.77 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spellbinding Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Achieving Excellence and Captivating Readers 4.31 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If you let yourself abandon the I-should-know-this-already attitude and simply accept your ignorance without giving yourself a hard time about it, then you can learn whatever it is you need to learn.”
― Barbara Baig, How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

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“Show your reader what you mean by those abstractions by giving specific examples, details, or statistics. Practice: Use Abstract Language Pick out an abstraction or two from the list you made earlier and write a sentence using it. Start with a short, simple sentence; then rewrite this sentence as many times as you need to, adding more sentences, if you like, and making clear to your readers how you want them to understand the abstraction in this particular situation. What did you notice in doing this? Here’s something else to try: Bring an abstraction to mind, then try to write some sentences that will convey that abstraction to the mind of your reader without including the abstraction itself in your sentences. To do these practices, you had to dig into your word hoard”
― Barbara Baig, Spellbinding Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Achieving Excellence and Captivating Readers

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“Practice: Read for Specifics One of the best ways to get a feel for the power of specific language is to read the work of writers who use this language with skill. You can find such writers exercising their skill virtually any subject and in many genres. (You won’t find them—or only rarely—in academia or politics or government, where empty generalizations rule.) So take some time to read writers who can use language to show you something, and pay careful attention to the effect their words have upon you. If you like, mark passages you find especially effective, then go back later and see if you can discover which words or phrases created that effect. Write those words and phrases in your notebook, look up the meanings of any words you don’t know, and practice using them.”
― Barbara Baig, Spellbinding Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Achieving Excellence and Captivating Readers

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