Using anecdotes and lessons hard-won from decades of teaching and writing – and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher – Prof Foster guides you through the basics of writing, including information about organizing your thoughts, constructing first drafts and (not incidentally) keeping your butt in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit.  Engagingly, he shows us all how to get into (and over) our best selves, how to find our voices, and how to know when, if ever, a piece of work is ever done.  With anecdotes, lists and bullet points, Foster shows us how writers write, and most important, that everybody – for better or worse, whether they mean to or not – is known by what they put on paper.