Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life by Priscilla Long
Priscilla Long . Unknown Year . English
Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.
Categories: Creative Thinking / Creativity
About the Author
Photo by Anne Herman. Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfictions, fictions, science, and history. Her most recent book is Cartographies of Home: Poems (MoonPath, 2026). Her book on thriving while aging is Dancing with the Muse in Old Age (Epicenter / Coffeetown, 2022). Her book Holy Magic won Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award from MoonPath Press. Her how-to-write book is The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). Her other books include a collection of linked creative nonfictions titled Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press); Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators (Coffeetown Press); and Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). Her first book is a scholarly book on the history of coalmining in the United States: Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry. Long is a longtime independent teacher of writing to developing professional writers.
