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In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, HOW TO WRITE SHORT guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.
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Copyright 2013 by Roy Peter Clark
Cover design by Keith Hayes. Cover photograph by Geoff Spear.
Cover copyright 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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A fun, practical guide to writing little from a guy whos written a lot. Respected journalist and writing teacher Roy Peter Clark really knows his way around a sentence. Learn from him.
Christopher Johnson, author of Microstyle
How to Write Short comes at the perfect time and enshrines Roy Peter Clark as Americas best writing coach. Who else could masterfully tease the secrets of short, powerful writing from unexpected sourcesthe Bible, Shakespeare, Tom Petty, and Abe Lincoln? This book should be on every serious writers shelf underpants.
Ben Montgomery, staff writer, Tampa Bay Times (If you are wondering about that last word, its an inside joke from the book!)
Were writing more than ever before, on screens big and small, and the pressure is on to make our characters count. In this book, Roy Peter Clark shows us how, and more importantly, why its worth the effort. How to Write Short is both a deeply practical guidebook and an annotated collection of concise gems from some of the worlds greatest writers and journalists, not one of them longer than 300 words. Roys message is clear: great writing is a matter of craft, not word count. How to Write Short will make you a better writer at any length.
Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore
Roy Peter Clark has compressed a lifetime of learning and love of language into How to Write Short. An engaging, entertaining, indispensable guide to the art and craft of concision.
James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase and I Is an Other
How to Write Short both instructs and delights, in equal measure. On every page there is some useful advice and an amusing observation or illustration. Roy Peter Clarks many fans know that (extremely) diverse examples are one of his specialties, and this book doesnt disappoint. Open it up at random and youll find quotes from Oscar Wilde, Steven Wright, Dorothy Parker, and Gypsy Rose Lee. And thats just one page! Read this book!
Ben Yagoda, author of When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It and How to Not Write Bad
Writers can surely benefit from practicing some of these tiny techniques.
Kirkus Reviews
Clark mines everything from commercials to the Psalms, ransom notes to the Gettysburg address, baseball cards to the work of Bryan A. Garner, heart-shaped valentine candies to nineteenth-century poetry. Watching Clark select from this range is dizzying and fun.
Trevor Quirk, Columbia Journalism Review
A+ I recommend How to Write Short. Rather than lambasting Internet writing, journalism guru Roy Peter Clark wrote a book on composing effective tweets and status updates. Clark demonstrates his short-writing chops in the form of a Match.com profile. Its good enough that I dont want my girlfriend reading it.
Rick Lax, Las Vegas Weekly
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Dont just make a living, make a mark.
At this moment, the right pocket in my jeans contains more computing power than the space vessel that carried the first astronauts to the moon. My Apple iPhone 4S stores all of Shakespeares plays, a searchable source I can use for quick reference. More often, I use my mobile phone for access to what are no longer being called new forms of information delivery: blog posts, e-mails, text messages, YouTube videos, 140-character tweets, and Facebook updates, not to mention games, weather reports, Google Maps, coupons, the White House, Al Jazeera, NPR, dozens of newspapers, music sites, an electronic drum set, an app that imitates the sounds of Star Wars lightsabers, one that turns your photo into an image of a zombie, and yet another invaluable resource titled Atomic Fart, which turns your mobile device into an electronic whoopee cushion.
Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore. In fact, were soaring high above Oz, looking down like a Google Earth search. Were high on technology, but adrift in a jet stream of information. All the more reason to write shortand well.
Ive written How to Write Short because I could not find another book quite like it and because in the digital age, short writing is king. We need more good short writingthe kind that makes us stop, read, and thinkin an accelerating world. A time-starved culture bloated with information hungers for the lean, clean, simple, and direct. Such is our appetite for short writing that not only do our long stories seem too long, but our short stories feel too long as well.
The most important messages are short, after all: Amen, brother. Will you marry me? I do. Not guilty. The Giants win the pennant! (That message was so exciting in 1951 that the radio announcer Russ Hodges repeated it five times.) Score! Youre fired. I love you.
In his book Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little, Christopher Johnson writes, Messages of just a word, a phrase, or a short sentence or twomicromessageslean heavily on every word and live or die by the tiniest stylistic choices. Micromessages depend not on the elements of style but on the
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