{"product_id":"books-making-a-literary-life-by-carolyn-see","title":"Making a Literary Life","description":"As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday-there may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there's always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you're sure is out there somewhere.\u003cbr\u003e Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, and creative-writing professor into this marvelously engaging how-to book. Partly the nuts and bolts of writing (plot, point of view, character, voice) and partly an inspirational guide to living the life you dream of, Making a Literary Life takes you from the decision to \"become\" a writer to three months after the publication of your first book. A combination of writing and life strategies (do not tell everyone around you how you yearn to be a writer; send a \"charming note\" to someone you admire in the industry five days a week, every week, for the rest of your life; find the perfect characters right in front of you), Making a Literary Life is for people not usually considered part of the literary loop- the non-East Coasters, the secret scribblers.\u003cbr\u003e With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to \"ordinary\" people living \"ordinary\" lives, Carolyn See has summed up her life's work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you won't even realize it's changing your life until it already has.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669545378065,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780345440464.jpg?v=1781509120","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-making-a-literary-life-by-carolyn-see","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}