Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

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Synopsis
As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday: "There may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there'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 you'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 become a writer to three months after the publication of your first book. A combination of writing and life strategies (e.g., do not tell everyone around you how you yearn to be a writer; send a charming note 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 non East Coasters, the secret scribblers. With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to ordinary people living ordinary lives, Carolyn See has summed up her life's work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you won't even realize it's changing your life until it already has.
Copyright:
2002

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ISBN-13:
9780307415967
Related ISBNs:
9780345440464, 9781422350942
Publisher:
Random House, Inc.
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Copyrighted By:
Carolyn See
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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