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

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Book by Brown Rita Mae

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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

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0553052462
• ISBN 13: 9780553052466
• Einband: Tapa dura