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Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life

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Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life

This marvelous guide begins where other books on writing and the writing life leave off. Delving deep into the creative process, Bret Lott reveals truths we scarcely realized we needed to know but without which we as writers will soon lose our way. In ten intimate essays based on his own experiences and on the seasoned wisdom of writers including Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, and John Gardner, Lott explores such topics as

â€¢ why write? why keep writing?
â€¢ the importance of simple words
â€¢ the finer points of character detail
â€¢ narrative and the passage of time
â€¢ the pitfalls of technique
â€¢ making a planâ€“and letting it go
â€¢ risking failureâ€“and reaping the benefits
â€¢ Accepting rejection

Writers travel alone, but Bret Lottâ€™s book makes the journey less lonely and infinitely more rewarding. Before We Get Started will help you make your work as good as it can be: â€œPay attention recklessly. Strain to see through the window of your own artistic consciousness in the exhilarating knowledge that there is no path to the waterfall, and there are a million paths to the waterfall, and there is, too, only one path: yours.â€

Country	USA
Author	Bret Lott
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780345478177
Edition	1st
ISBN	0345478177
Label	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2005-01-25
Publisher	Ballantine Books
ReleaseDate	2005-01-25
Studio	Ballantine Books

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