Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

From the best-selling author ofÂ Â Rubyfruit Jungle andÂ Â Bingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative,Â Â frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike mostÂ Â writers' guides, this one had as much to do with howÂ Â writers live as with mastering the tools of theirÂ Â trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personalÂ Â account of her own career, from her days as a youngÂ Â poet who had written a novel no publisher wantedÂ Â to take a chance on, right up to her recentÂ Â adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy styleÂ Â that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining asÂ Â it is useful, she provides straight talk aboutÂ Â paying the rent while maintaining the energy toÂ Â write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics,Â Â and the publicity circus; about pursuingjÂ Â ournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejectingÂ Â the Hemingway myth of the hard-living,Â Â hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher orÂ Â writing, offers a serious examination of theÂ Â writer's tool--language, plotting, characters,Â Â symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue,Â Â and a fascinating, annoted reading list ofÂ Â important works from the seventh century to the lateÂ Â twentieth.
Country USA
Brand Bantam Books
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1989-03-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553346305

Country	USA
Brand	Bantam Books
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1989-03-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553346305

Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

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