title: The Complete Writer: Writing with Ease:
author:  Susan Wise Bauer 
description: Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.
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   _This book is dedicated to my friend_  
   _and fellow practitioner of the_  
   _writing arts, Karen Everson._
  
   **Contents**
  
  Prologue
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Chapter Eighteen
  
  Chapter Nineteen
  
  Chapter Twenty
  
  Epilogue
  
  Main Characters
  
  Place Names
  
  About the Author
  
  Also Available
  
  Copyright
  
   _ **Acknowledgments**_
  
  The author would like to once again thank the Untitled Writers Group for their
  honesty and support. Many thanks also to my editor, James Frenkel, and my
  agent, Shawna McCarthy, without whom this book and this series would not have
  seen the light of day.
  
   _In the lofty chamber, at the river mouth … a fair maiden 