Write Like Hemingway
Find Your Voice, Discover Your Style Using the 10 Rules That Guided a Nobel Laureate
Cider Mill Press · Print & ebook · November 26, 2019
An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.
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- Who it’s for
- Trace how a Kansas City newspaper’s style guide shaped Hemingway’s prose.
- Themes
- Writing craft, Hemingway’s early career, Narrative economy
- Genres
- Writing as a Career, Writers' Lives, Language Arts
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An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style. Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable fiction. After graduating high school, and before heading to Italy to drive an ambulance during World War I, Papa spent about 6 months over the course of 1917 and 1918 writing police reports for The Kansas City Star.
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Following the paper's style guide, with rules like Use short sentences, and approximately 100 more similarly exacting ones, Hemingway learned how to write, and carried these lessons of narrative economy with him for the rest of his life.
The Star’s Style Guide
Trace how a Kansas City newspaper’s style guide shaped Hemingway’s prose.
Come here for
- The Kansas City Star’s influence on Hemingway’s writing style
- Hemingway’s early work writing police reports
Expect
- A style guide rule: “Use short sentences”
- Connections between early reporting and later narrative economy
Where it sits
| Writing as a Career | 52% |
|---|---|
| Language Arts | 30% |
| Writers' Lives | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Journalism
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Ed Gleason
- Publisher
- Cider Mill Press
- Published
- November 26, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Writing craft · Hemingway’s early career · Narrative economy
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing