Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers

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Synopsis
This is a collection of essays by familiar and unfamiliar writers of stage plays, screen plays, sport columns, short stories, comedy routines, newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons and novels, from romance to adventure, to detective. They open their hearts to would be writers covering the spectrum of the writing experience. from its lowest ebb to the apex of its successes. You will read about writers low on money and high on rejection slips. Some of the record breaking best selling writers of all time describe their bulging file folders of hundreds of rejection letters. As you read their essays you'll feel as if you met them, spent quality, one on one time with them. Discover how a mother writes romance with a houseful of bickering kids vying for attention, how a sports writer risks his life and breaks his limbs to participate in the sports he writes about first hand. Walk beside untried writer hopefuls who meet their author heroes like the genuinely warm and generous Alex Haley and the outspoken, brilliant Sinclair Lewis. You'll see that success is often built on failure as was the experience of the author of Sleepless in Seattle, whose first play was viciously attacked by critics and closed after one performance. Ray Bradbury writes a beautifully poetic ode to the joy of lifelong reading declaring that you must read what you like, not what you are told to or expected to read. He promises that what you read contributes to who you will become. Sue Grafton confides that she is living her father's dream as well as her own. He taught her the groundwork for becoming a successful author while denying himself that dream. Whether you sample the articles that call to you, or read this wonderful collection of heartfelt, first hand experiences with the writing process, you will learn, be amused and moved and deeply enjoy and appreciate every word, every page, every meeting with every author. Cartoons are included and described.
Copyright:
2000

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
416 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781558747708
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Self-Help, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts
Submitted By:
Shelley L. Rhodes
Proofread By:
Lissi
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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