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Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months
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Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months Paperback - 2011

by John DuFresne

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Dufresne's smart, practical, hard-nosed guide is ideal for the person who has always wanted to write a novel, but has been daunted by the sometimes chaotic, always challenging writing process.

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John Dufresne's smart, practical, hard-nosed guide is for the person who has always wanted to write a novel but has been daunted by the sometimes chaotic, always challenging writing process. A patient teacher and an experienced writer, Dufresne focuses his expertise and good humor on helping aspiring novelists take their first tentative steps.

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  • Title Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months
  • Author John DuFresne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 314
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date 2011-02
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393338836 / 0393338835
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.23 x 5.57 x 0.77 in (20.90 x 14.15 x 1.96 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Authorship, Creative writing
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.3
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