Gift of the Unicorn

The ability to write well is difficult to gain. To write beyond the ordinary-beyond the clear and effective paragraph or book-needs craft, patience, and practice. And it has always required something more: genius, magic, a supreme gift. Professor Hunt in The Gift of the Unicorn binds the two-the craft and the gift-under a unifying light, showing both writer and reader the how and why and perhaps of good writing and of the writing that has gained, in Hunt's words, "e;the friendship of time"e; and is called literature.Essays include: "e;Beginning,"e; "e;The Web of Writing,"e; "e;The Telling,"e; "e;Spontaneity,"e; "e;Disciplined Writing,"e; "e;The Story,"e; "e;The People in the Book,"e; "e;Of Rules, Again,"e; and "e;Ending."e;