The ART AND CRAFT OF WRITING AND EDITING - Includes a Primer on Publishing (Paperback)

The craft of writing involves an interchange of emotions between an author and a reader. An author creates a story line, conflict, and characters, gives his characters words to speak, and then hands off these materials to a reader. This process results in a constant dialogue between the mental imagery produced by a reader and that proposed by the author. An author, however, should never try to control the mental images readers discover.