An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and
personal writing
Writing should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing
with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to
reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive
ones. By learning how to cast light on the shadows, you will soon find
yourself bringing passion and pleasure to everything you write.
Acclaimed international writing expert Helen Sword invites you to step
into your "WriteSPACE"--a space of pleasurable writing that is socially
balanced, physically engaged, aesthetically nourishing, creatively
challenging, and emotionally uplifting. Sword weaves together
cutting-edge findings in the sciences and social sciences with
compelling narratives gathered from nearly six hundred faculty members
and graduate students from across the disciplines and around the world.
She provides research-based principles, hands-on strategies, and
creative "pleasure prompts" designed to help you ramp up your
productivity and enhance the personal rewards of your writing practice.
Whether you're writing a scholarly article, an administrative email, or
a love letter, this book will inspire you to find delight in even the
most mundane writing tasks and a richer, deeper pleasure in those you
already enjoy.
Exuberantly illustrated by prizewinning graphic memoirist Selina
Tusitala Marsh, Writing with Pleasure is an indispensable resource for
academics, students, professionals, and anyone for whom writing has come
to feel like a burden rather than a joy.
