An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write write better or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing he sets out to help us unlearn that wisdomabout genius about creativity about writers block topic sentences and outlineand understand that writing is just as much about thinking noticing and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel no orthodoxy no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively lucid satisfying selfexpression. show more