BEAULIEU, Derek. How to Write. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2010. First Edition. 178x108mm. Trade Paperback. New. 71pp. How to Write is an instruction manual for the demise of ownership. A multitudinous dialogue of writers and subjects, words and contexts, it unleashes a cacophany of voices where authors don't own their words, they merely rent them from others. How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short fiction takes inspiration from LautrÈamontís decree that ìplagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the authorís sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea.î