Expressive Writing vs Reading Like a Writer: Which Should You Read?

Expressive Writing Kathleen Adams · 2013 259 pages · ≈ 4 h 48 m · Moderate

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets,…

Reading Like a Writer Francine Prose · 2006 ★★★★☆ 3.7 296 pages · ≈ 5 h 29 m · Challenging

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose…