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An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has committed his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award-winning book Middle Passing is a modern classic, revered as much for its daring story as its philosophical underpinnings. For 33 years Johnson taught and mentored students in the art work and build of creative writing. The Way of the Copy writer is his record of these years and the coda to a kaleidoscopic, boundary-shattering job. Organized into six accessible, easy-to-navigate sections, The Way of the Copy writer is both a literary representation on the creative impulse and a utilitarian guide to the writing process. Johnson stocks his lessons and exercises from the class, starting with word choice, syntax, and narrative words and delving into the mechanics of picture, dialogue, story, and storytelling before discovering the larger questions at stake for the serious copy writer: What separates books from professional fiction? What sits at the heart of the creative impulse? How does one navigate the literary world? And how are viewpoint and fiction concomitant?

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