How to write like a writer: a sharp and subversive guide to ignoring inhibitions, inviting inspiration, and finding your true voice

Introduction: can't we just text or something?

Why write? The "I" at the center of "write" ; I-thou relationships ; Writing as exploration of self ; Writing a exploration of subject ; Writing as a locus of play ; Interlude: the writer's seven (or however many) deadly sins

What to write and how. Tell yourself what you want to say ; Voice actor ; Beginning before you begin ; Beginnings ; The part between the ends ; Endings ; Don't edit a flying leap ; The problem with process ; Detailing your prose (1)

Soaring practice. Exercises from literature ; Writing exercises that illuminate academic or professional tasks ; Sentences and their friends ; Interlude: rules to live, or at least write, by ; Oh yeah? Prove it! ; Even the Nile has a source ; Revision: it ain't pretty, but... ; Detailing your prose (2).