Writing to Change the World

By Pipher, Mary Bray

Publishers Summary:
In these tumultuous times, don't we all want to be heard? Who doesn't want to transform the world? And who doesn't harbor a secret ambition to write? Writing to Change the World is intended to help people who have a message they're passionate about to convey it clearly through writing. Inspired by a course of the same name that Mary Pipher taught at the University of Nebraska's National Summer Writers' Conference, this book encapsulates her years of experience as a writer and therapist, as well as her extensive knowledge of the craft of writing. Writing to Change the World combines practical instruction with inspirational commentary, featuring personal anecdotes, memorable quotations from other writers, practical how-to advice, and stories about writers who have transformed society through their work. In addition to laying out the various steps of the writing process-brainstorming, writing, revising, and publishing-Pipher gives advice about specific forms of advocacy writing: op-ed pieces, letters, essays, speeches, and blogs. She inspires readers to take up their pens, while reflecting on the writer's responsibilities as a moral agent. This is a book that really can make a difference!

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ISBN
978-1-59448-920-4
Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover


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Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2006

Psychologist Pipher (Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls ) offers a guide to literary activism, or, as she terms it,change-writing . How one feels about this phrase will determine one�s reaction to her book as a whole. Pipher�s tone is sentimental, bordering on the melodramatic, and she has never met a clich� or a Buddhist teaching she doesn�t like. It is also not clear how...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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