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false <![CDATA[Making a Literary Life]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170793603m/71828.jpg 71828 2 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. From the Hardcover edition. 901551 2002 Making a Literary Life total:170|5:62|4:60|3:37|2:10|1:1| 170 682 279 42 3 0 false false Tue Feb 17 08:15:15 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:15:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 31 08:45:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 08:56:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 03:29:51 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 03:35:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 16 18:36:49 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:55:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 07 12:12:41 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 12:14:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 28 20:02:38 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 08 21:25:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Jan 08 21:43:33 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 21:47:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 03 22:34:03 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 22:40:16 -0700 2009
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