Writer's Eye

Amy E. Weldon is Professor of English at Luther College, USA. She is the author of The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save the World (2018) and has published numerous essays in edited collections and stories and reviews in journals including Orion, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Common, Midwest Gothic, and The Carolina Quarterly.

• Introduction: Something to Say and a Voice to Say It InChapter One: Writing and the World Beyond Your HeadChapter Two: Fighting the Brain, Writing the Brain: Neuroscience for WritersChapter Three: Building A World on the PageChapter Four: Your Voice on the PageChapter Five: Workshops and RevisionChapter Six: Loving the PathAppendicesIndex

Amy E. Weldon, Associate Professor of English at Luther College, is here to help writers exercise the power of observation in her new book The Writer’s Eye … Using classic examples and hands-on writing exercises, Weldon walks scribes through a variety of craft subjects like world-building, revision, and finding a writer’s voice. … As the book draws to an end, Weldon shares career advice, including helpful sample submission letters for literary journals and agent queries. It closes with an impressive selection of recommended reading broken down by genre, including a long list of suggested anthologies.