Write Better

Preface

Part I: The Craft of Writing
1. Finding an Opening
2. Knowing Your Audience
3. Giving Structure
4. The Character of Persuasion
5. The Craft of Persuasion
6. Creating Dramatic Nonfiction
7. Cracking Our Writer’s Block
8. The Nuts, Bolts, Hammers, and Saws of Good Rewriting
9. We Remember Endings First
10. Titles That Work

Part II: The Art of Writing
11. Creativity, the Mysterious Muse
12. Breaking the Rules
13. The Key to Powerful Prose—Tone
14. For the Love of Metaphor
15. Less Is More

Part III: The Spirituality of Writing
16. Called to Write
17. The Quest for Voice
18. The Spirituality of Writing About Yourself
19. Spiritual Authority and Writing
20. The Courage to Create and Let Go
21. Stewards with a Message

Appendix A: Get Thee to a Platform
Appendix B: Editors and Agents Do Make Cowards of Us All
Appendix C: The Coauthor Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
Appendix D: To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish
Appendix E: The Copyright’s the Thing
Online Resources from Andrew T. Le Peau
Recommended Reading
Notes
Index

Andrew T. Le Peau is a writer and an editor living in the Chicago area. He was the long-time associate publisher for editorial at InterVarsity Press where he worked for over forty years. Before that he was a campus staff member for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, serving in the St. Louis area.

He is the coauthor of several Bible study guides including James and Ephesians in the LifeGuide Bible Study series, and author of Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength. and Mark Through Old Testament Eyes.