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About Why We Write: Craft Essays On Writing War
Product Description For military service members, veterans, and families—and all those who write about them! Tap into PUBLISHING INSPIRATIONS, WRITING MARKETS, and CREATIVE TECHNIQUES with advice from MORE THAN 60 BEST-SELLING, ESTABLISHED, and EMERGING AUTHORS of military, national security, and war topics! Whether you're writing military-themed genre fiction or literary non-fiction, strategy or policy analysis, history or journalism, or even modern war poetry, Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War puts an arsenal of innovation and expertise at your fingertips! Choose your weapons: Podcasts! Memoirs! Novels! Book reviews! Short stories! Op-Ed essays! And more! Entertaining, informal, and accessible, this first-ever Military Writers Guild-sponsored anthology is ideal for: Individual creatives and scholars Writing workshops Classroom discussions of war literature, literary history, and popular culture Professional development forums Contributors include such leading authors as: Phil Klay (Redeployment) Vanya Eftimova Bellinger (Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of “On War”) David Abrams (Fobbit and Brave Deeds) Alex Finley (Victor in the Rubble and Victor in the Jungle) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Ashley’s War and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana) Thomas E. Ricks (Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom; The Generals; Fiasco; The Gamble) Kate Germano (Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained) Peter Van Buren (We Meant Well and Hooper’s War) Kori Schake (Safe Passage; Warriors and Citizens) Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War) Jessica Scott (The Coming Home; Falling; and Homefront romance series) Carmen Gentile (Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss) Hugh Martin (In Country; Stick Soldiers; and So, How Was the War?) Robert L. Bateman (No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident and Digital War: A View from the Front Lines) P.W. Singer & August Cole (Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War) Review " Why We Write serves as a big tent for those writing the military experience, wide and vast and complicated as that experience is. Brown and Leonard have done a fine job of gathering a clear-eyed array of voices and visions from within the military community, and this volume offers lessons-learned for writers new to the page, as well as those searching for new inroads into the stories that need to be told. Why We Write helps to demystify the process and to humanize the writers behind the written word. It offers approaches to craft that can prove useful for writers of any camp, and, more importantly, it offers writers of all stripes an encouraging call to arms--to pick up the pen and write!" --Brian Turner, U.S. Army veteran; author of the poetry collections Here Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005) and Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, 2010), and the memoir My Life as Foreign Country (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014) "A notable first, Why We Write delivers immeasurable, experiential wisdom from an impressive range of military voices regarding the power and impact of writing--on the self, on the truth, and ultimately on the world. As valuable as any text ever produced on the subject of fashioning a writing life, this collection deserves shelf space in the literary canon alongside its revered-author and academic counterparts. Indeed, the courageous contributors within Why We Write are filling a disturbing void for humanity by expressing a sense of urgency and historical reflection about the complexities of war--whether writing and reflecting on the insanely humorous, or the insanely atrocious." --Tracy Crow, U.S. Marine Corps veteran; president of the national non-profit MilSpeak Foundation, Inc.; literary agent; and author of six military-themed fiction and non-fiction titles, including On Point: A Guide to Writing the Military Story (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) "It seems that from the drop, writers ar
