Writing with Power by Elbow Peter;

Author:Elbow, Peter;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2009-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Summary and Advice

• Beware the common advice that has blocked so many people over the years: that you must always keep your audience in mind from the beginning of any piece of writing. This is wrong just like that other common advice: that you must always figure out your meaning before you start. The point is that figuring out your meaning and keeping your audience in mind are both focusing procedures. If you already have plenty of good material in your mind, or too little time, you may want to focus your mind before you start writing. But if you want your best insights you are probably better off avoiding focus for a while. Here’s a correct statement of the rule: sometime before you finish writing you must figure out your meaning and think about your audience; and then revise strenuously in terms of this focus.

• Get a feeling for what it’s like to write from inside and from outside the magnetic field of your audience and for the temperament that usually goes with each. Figure out which is your strength and which your weakness so you can exploit the one and gradually strengthen the other.

• Learn, therefore, to take conscious control over when you bring to bear the focusing effect of audience on any writing project. For example:

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