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Starting From Scratch A Different Kind Of Writer's Manual Rita Mae Brown Book
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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Please read complete description and examine scans. Thanks!”
- Book Title
- Starting From Scratch
- ISBN
- 9780553346305
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
055334630X
ISBN-13
9780553346305
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038432067
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Starting from Scratch : a Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Subject
Personal & Practical Guides, Authorship, Literary, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
1989
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Reference, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."-- Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross between Writers Digest and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind ."-- The Washington Post ., "Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."--Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross betweenWriters Digestand Allan Bloom'sThe Closing of the American Mind."--The Washington Post., "Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."-- Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross between Writers Digest and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind ."-- The Washington Post ., "Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."--Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross between Writers Digest and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind."--The Washington Post. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo , here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal account of her own career, from her days as a young poet who had written a novel no publisher wanted to take a chance on, right up to her recent adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy style that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining as it is useful, she provides straight talk about paying the rent while maintaining the energy to write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics, and the publicity circus; about pursuing journalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejecting the Hemingway myth of the hard-living, hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher or writing, offers a serious examination of the writer's tool-language, plotting, characters, symbolism-plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue, and a fascinating, annoted reading list of important works from the seventh century to the late twentieth., From the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo , here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal account of her own career, from her days as a young poet who had written a novel no publisher wanted to take a chance on, right up to her recent adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy style that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining as it is useful, she provides straight talk about paying the rent while maintaining the energy to write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics, and the publicity circus; about pursuingj ournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejecting the Hemingway myth of the hard-living, hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher or writing, offers a serious examination of the writer's tool--language, plotting, characters, symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue, and a fascinating, annoted reading list of important works from the seventh century to the late twentieth.
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