Making a Literary Life : Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

While this book ostensibly teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find & join that community of like-minded souls you're sure is out there somewhere. The author distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, & creative-writing prof. into this marvelously engaging how-to book. Partly the nuts & bolts of writing (plot, point of view, character, voice) & partly an inspirational guide to living the life you dream of, this book takes you from the decision to becomeÓ a writer to 3 months after the pub. of your first book. A combination of writing & life strategies, this original & smart & down-to-earth guide is for people not usually considered part of the literary loop: the secret scribblers.See, Carolyn is the author of 'Making a Literary Life : Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422350942 and ISBN 1422350940.