Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite
advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and
crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and
creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story,
or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's
ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the
masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is
updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides
hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every
writer's work.