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4: Aboutness
An Essay Is Often About Something Other Than What It’s About
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction 1
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Part One What You Need to Know Before You Start Writing
- 1: Steal, Steal, Steal: Learning to Read like a Writer 19
- 2: Craft Your “I”: 29
- 3: Sex, Drugs, and Palestinian Statehood 37
- AMANDA + JIM 53
- 4: Aboutness 60
- ADAM FINDS HIS PIRATES 68
- 5: The Hole in the Donut 72
- 6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words 80
- EMMA’S SHORTIES 91
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Part Two Getting It Down on the Page and Then Cleaning It Up
- 7: Shitty First Drafts 99
- 8: Seeing Again 107
- 9: Don’t Try to Hook the Reader like a Trout 111
- PEYTON’S ANKLE 117
- 10: Danger! 120
- 11: Semicolons Are like Loaded Guns 139
- 12: My Little Bag of Writing Tricks 148
- Conclusion 160
- Acknowledgments 167
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction 1
-
Part One What You Need to Know Before You Start Writing
- 1: Steal, Steal, Steal: Learning to Read like a Writer 19
- 2: Craft Your “I”: 29
- 3: Sex, Drugs, and Palestinian Statehood 37
- AMANDA + JIM 53
- 4: Aboutness 60
- ADAM FINDS HIS PIRATES 68
- 5: The Hole in the Donut 72
- 6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words 80
- EMMA’S SHORTIES 91
-
Part Two Getting It Down on the Page and Then Cleaning It Up
- 7: Shitty First Drafts 99
- 8: Seeing Again 107
- 9: Don’t Try to Hook the Reader like a Trout 111
- PEYTON’S ANKLE 117
- 10: Danger! 120
- 11: Semicolons Are like Loaded Guns 139
- 12: My Little Bag of Writing Tricks 148
- Conclusion 160
- Acknowledgments 167