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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
August 1, 2002
Pages
260
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679463160
ISBN-10
067946316X
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 8.75 in.
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Original list price
$23.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.' 25,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sundayâthere may be a lot of them, but you canât have too many, and thereâs 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 youâre 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 âbecomeâ 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 âcharming 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 nonâEast Coasters, the secret scribblers.
With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to âordinaryâ people living âordinaryâ lives, Carolyn See has summed up her lifeâs work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you wonât even realize itâs changing your life until it already has.
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 âbecomeâ 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 âcharming 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 nonâEast Coasters, the secret scribblers.
With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to âordinaryâ people living âordinaryâ lives, Carolyn See has summed up her lifeâs work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you wonât even realize itâs changing your life until it already has.
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1 edition from Random House Inc (August 1, 2002)
9780679463160 | details & prices | 260 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $23.95
About: The author offers an inspirational guide to the writing life, sharing anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.
About: The author offers an inspirational guide to the writing life, sharing anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (August 1, 2003)
9780345440464 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.00
About: The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!
About: The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!
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