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by Barbara Baig
SPELLBINDING SENTENCES: A Writer's Guide to Achieving Excellence and Captivating Readers
With Spellbinding Sentences as your guide, you will master two essential writing skills. You'll become fluent at finding words, and expert in arranging them into powerful sentences—sentences that will grab and keep your readers' attention.
(Writer's Digest Books, 2015)
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PRAISE for Spellbinding Sentences
“Get this book and profit from it!”
Barbara Baig’s Spellbinding Sentences is a tribute to the pleasure and vitality of the English language. Never prescriptive and always clear, this enlightening book is sure to help all those wishing to add grace and strength to their writing.
—Jane Brox, award-winning author of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, one of TIME magazine’s top ten nonfiction books of 2010
HOW TO BE A WRITER: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play
(Writer's Digest Books, 2010)
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"This is a wise, humane and practical book for anyone who wants to write; it guides the novice and re-awakens the veteran to processes and practices which can bring out the best writing in all of us."
—Emma Darwin, author of A Secret Alchemy
"Any writer, beginner or experienced author, will benefit from reading Barbara's book. An experienced teacher and writer herself, she sets out in clear, convincing words how the practice of writing can free up the writer within all of us. She shows how to develop the skills we need as writers, how to come up with content ideas, and how to effectively communicate those ideas to readers. Best of all, she takes the pressure off of writers to 'produce' a finished piece before we are ready. Instead, she invites us to enjoy the freedom of practicing writing in our own time and at our own pace, to learn how to collect the rich material we will need for whatever subject we choose, and to become comfortable in our relationship with our readers.
—Dorothy Stephens, author Kwa Heri Means Good-bye: a memoir of Kenya
THE MASTERY PATH FOR WRITERS: A New Approach to Building Your Skills
This booklet explains how writers can give up the myth of innate talent and instead master skills the same way top musicians and athletes do—through deliberate practice.
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Articles on Writing
“The Talent Myth,” in The Writer, April 2012.
“Starting the Writing Journey,” in Writing Basics, 2012 .
“Writing as Practice, Writing as Play,” in The Writer’s Guide to Creativity, 2011.
“Practice and Voice,” micolewritesromance.com
“The Mastery Path: What Writers Can Learn from the Expertise Researchers,” Maine in Print, (forthcoming)
“Where Writing Meets Baseball,” Brown Alumni Monthly, (forthcoming).
“How To Become an Excellent Writer,” Writer Beware .
“Where Writing Meets Baseball: What Writers Can Learn from the Expertise Researchers,” thisitchofwriting.com