Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See

Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See

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.
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.
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.

Carolyn See is the author of a number of novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days, as well as nonfiction works like Creating a Literary Life: Tips for Writers and Other Dreamers and Dreaming: Bad Luck and Good Times in America. She has served on the boards of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN/West International, as well as being a book critic for The Washington Post. She has received Guggenheim and Getty grants, and she is currently an English professor at UCLA. She resides in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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ISBN 13	9780345440464
ISBN 10	0345440463
Title	Making a Literary Life
Author	Carolyn See
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-08-26
Number of pages	288
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