Murder Your Darlings, Roy Peter Clark
Murder Your Darlings, Roy Peter Clark
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Murder Your Darlings
And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser

Author: Roy Peter Clark

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/21/2020


Synopsis

From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.

With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate. Then again, what about the classics -- Strunk and White, or even Aristotle himself?

Thankfully, your search is over. In Murder Your Darlings, Roy Peter Clark, who has been a beloved and revered writing teacher to children and Pulitzer Prize winners alike for more than thirty years, has compiled a remarkable collection of more than 100 of the best writing tips from fifty of the best writing books of all time.

With a chapter devoted to each key strategy, Clark expands and contextualizes the original author's suggestions and offers anecdotes about how each one helped him or other writers sharpen their skills. An invaluable resource for writers of all kinds, Murder Your Darlings is an inspiring and edifying ode to the craft of writing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on August 20, 2021

Murder Your Darlings is not just another book about writing. It shares the wisdom and creative insights of fifty or so authors, some famous, some not, and some who wrote their own books about the craft. In his own unique manner, Roy Peter Clark distills the main lessons from each writer and presents......more

Goodreads review by Miebara on January 23, 2021

Insightful book on writing. A writing book of writing books. Clark curates the ideas from the best writing and style books ever published. Every chapter covers a writing advice from a book and author. And at the end of each chapter is a summarised list of lessons for the reader.......more

Goodreads review by Max on April 29, 2020

Wonderful distillation of great writing books.......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on May 18, 2021

This is a sort of "greatest hits" survey of writing guides, which makes it handy for getting the lay of the land out there in the world of writing advice for both fiction and nonfiction. It's clever and insightful and if you're a writer or an aspiring writer, I recommend it to you. I'd say it's abou......more