Writer Question: What books can I read, or techniques can I use, to become more fluent in my expression? #amwriting @StephenKing advice

by @SylviaHubbard1, posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tip

On Facebook, Twitter and Email, I get asked a lot of questions. So I use my website to funnel these questions which sometimes get asked more than once. Most of these are under the Writing Tip category here.

Kyla L. Yett

Hi Sylvia! Asking for advice again on writing.

Q: What books can I read, or techniques can I use, to become more fluent in my expression? Sometimes I feel staccato. (Have Hodges Harbrace handbook at hand, any good?) Thank you in advance. MY ANSWER

Writing Is Easy; You Just Open a Vein and Bleed

To find your “voice” the best way is to do what Stephen King said to do read what you like and practice all the time. When someone said that to me I thought isn’t there an easier way? But there isn’t. Your voice is deep down in your soul and you have to wipe away years or even decades of other voices to find it. But with lots of practice – meaning writing every day and learning about your craft every day, it’ll come and when it does, it’s the most beautiful thing next to having a baby you will ever experience. Now Harbrace will teach you the technique just like a teacher will teach you the alphabet and how to write your name with the letters your parents gave you, but only you can write your signature the way you do. No teacher or book in the word can give you that. Only you. I can’t give you a time. I can’t say it’ll happen soon or in a couple of months after doing all this. All I can say if you work hard and never stop working and learning, it will happen and you WILL know it happened. Here are more books on writing… (even a free one so you guys have no excuse)

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Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Phillips, Larry W. (Jul 25, 2002)

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Other Formats: Hardcover
Excerpt – “… Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like …” Read More
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Lamott, Anne (Dec 18, 2007)

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Excerpt – Page 199: “… maybe Rumi, maybe Stephen Mitchell writing on Job: “The physical …” See a random page in this book.
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Write Good or Die by Scott Nicholson, Gayle Lynds, Kevin J. Anderson and M.J. Rose (Apr 13, 2010)

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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Clark, Roy Peter (Jan 10, 2008)

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Other Formats: Hardcover;  Audible Audio Edition
Excerpt – Page 169: “… jewelry. Writing with video … wrote the poet Stephen Vincent Benet. …” See a random page in this book.

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AUTHOR, MOTHER, SPEAKER, JOURNALIST, CONSULTANT & MORE! Divorced Mother of three, Detroiter, Sylvia Hubbard, is not only an award winning best selling author of over 28 books, but also founder of one of Michigan's largest interactive literary community, The Motown Writers Network/The Michigan Literary Network.