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For Writers Only
by Burnham, Sophy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345373170
- ISBN 13
- 9780345373175
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. Good. Hardcover Good Ships From Canada Very good in new dust jacket Ex-library Sewn binding Cloth over boards 208 p Audience: General/trade From Publishers Weekly Call it emotional rescue, this slight but useful book was compiled while Burnham (A Book of Angels) was writing steadily with no reward or promise of acknowledgment Thus, on facing pages, she offers quotes about the struggle by published authors, then her own meditations and anecdotes about the strains of the writing life While longer books (Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird) discuss both emotion and craft, Burnham covers the appropriate bases for the anxious, would-be artist: the trauma of beginning, the search for a place to create, the need to free-fall into fiction No loneliness, she observes trenchantly, matches that reached when you are continually "'"available to others at the expense of your inner voice "'" And she recalls, when she once felt like a failure, meeting an artist who reminded her we can "'"work with all our hearts"'" but
Synopsis
If you are looking for guidance on how to craft a sentence or find a literary agent this book is not for you. Rather, here is a map for traveling the emotion-laden path that is the creative process. In For Writer's Only , bestselling author and playwright, Sophy Burnham weaves the insights of some of the greatest writers with her own observations and experiences to provide inspiration and encouragement for writers everywhere. Burnham wrote this book for herself when she was in a particularly dark period, unable to get any of her work published. She wanted to know, how did the Great Masters, the immortals, do it? How did they combat discouragement, despair, rejection, dismissal, defeat? Did they write every day? What counsel and advice did they have to offer? In this book, you will discover the strange places authors have found they work best (Agatha Christie plotted her books in her bathtub, eating apples); the surprising diversions they use to escape the project they are working on (Anne Beattie used to vacuum rather than write); and why Faulkner famously asserted, "If a story is in you, it has got to come out." The truth is that the act of being creative is a difficult-even violent-process. Whether you read this book in one gulp from cover to cover, or simply pick it and read a few pages at those times when your are blocked, you will find yourself renewed, restored, re-heartened, and ready to race back to your own writing, your creative center.
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- Seller
- Pine Tree Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8705833218
- Title
- For Writers Only
- Author
- Burnham, Sophy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0345373170
- ISBN 13
- 9780345373175
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1994-10-11
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