Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual - Hardcover

Brown, Rita Mae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553052462 ISBN 13: 9780553052466

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Integrates personal anecdotes with technical advice and outspoken opinions, offering inexperienced writers a realistic view of their chosen craft.

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t-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 Hemingw

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0553052462
• ISBN 13: 9780553052466
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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