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W R I T I NG W E L L

“This is a book about what writing is, about how you do it so it

works, and how you do it so it lasts.”

Writing Well

is a workbook on technique, style, and manners

for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It’s a practi-

cal guide to making your prose sing. Writing is talk tidied and

transcribed. It’s speech heightened by art, and most of the art

can be learned. And that’s what this book is about.

Writing Well

is a guide to the poetic disciplines of creative

writing and the functional disciplines of professional prose,

and it’s a reﬂection on the moral obligations and creative

agonies of the writing life. Enriched by examples of ﬁne prose

from great writers, ﬂush with exercises, informed by the

author’s expertise in both creative and functional prose,

Writing Well

is a stylish and readable guide to stylish and read-

able writing.

mark tredinnick

is a poet, essayist, and writing teacher. His

books include

The Land’s Wild Music

(2005) and

A Place on Earth

(2003). He runs acclaimed writing programs at the University of

Sydney and at writers’ centers in Australia and the USA.

WRITING WELL

the essential guide

Mark Tredinnick