How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency: A Psychological Adventure
By (Author) Robert Boice
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
23rd August 1994
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Writing and editing guides
808
Hardback
280
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
539g
This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience, pacing, constancy, and resilience in writing. He shows how writers proceed to comfort and fluency by detailing strategies, rules, and turning points for a diversity of writers--professional, professorial, and otherwise. The result is a thorough-going discussion of what helps writers and a review of the broad literature that program participants found most helpful.
ROBERT BOICE is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a prolific publisher in scholarly journals (often about writing problems), he conducts a private practice of psychotherapy for writers, and he occasionally speaks to groups of writers.