This Creative Life: A Handbook for Writers
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There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you’re like most writers, you’ve just about read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that we can live them with maybe a little more thought and intention--no matter the many interior and exterior obstacles that can threaten to derail our purpose.
In this companion book to her long-running podcast, Sara Zarr brings her sixteen-year publishing career and experience as a speaker, teacher, and mentor to a conversational and encouraging collection of hard-won insights about what it means not to just write (and perchance to publish), but to be a writer.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is so good! One of the best books for writers, especially those of us who have stepped onto the. “I am a Published Author”, path. The honesty in this book made me laugh out loud time and again because I recognised myself in Sara’s words. As an author, that is the best accolade anyone can give you. If you are a writer, this is a Must Read. Thank you so much Sara for this brilliant book. ?