Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sundayâ€”there may be a lot of them, but you canâ€™t have too many, and thereâ€™s always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls youâ€™re sure is out there somewhere.

Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, and creative-writing professor into this marvelously engaging how-to book. Partly the nuts and bolts of writing (plot, point of view, character, voice) and partly an inspirational guide to living the life you dream of, Making a Literary Life takes you from the decision to â€œbecomeâ€ a writer to three months after the publication of your first book. A combination of writing and life strategies (do not tell everyone around you how you yearn to be a writer; send a â€œcharming noteâ€ to someone you admire in the industry five days a week, every week, for the rest of your life; find the perfect characters right in front of you), Making a Literary Life is for people not usually considered part of the literary loop: the nonâ€“East Coasters, the secret scribblers.

With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to â€œordinaryâ€ people living â€œordinaryâ€ lives, Carolyn See has summed up her lifeâ€™s work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you wonâ€™t even realize itâ€™s changing your life until it already has.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2003-08-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345440464

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Paperback
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	2003-08-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345440464

Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

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