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Starting from Scratch; A Different Kind of Writer's Manual Trade paperback - 1989
by Rita Mae Brown
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From the outspoken and irreverent multi-million-copy bestselling author, here is the first trade paperpack publication of Brown's writing manual. Unlike most writers' guides, hers has as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade.
First line
Writers will happen in the best of families.
From the jacket flap
From the best-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 Hemingway myth of the hard-living, hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher or writing, offers a serious examination of the writer's tool--language, plotting, characters, symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue, and a fascinating, annoted reading list of important works from the seventh century to the late twentieth.
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- Title Starting from Scratch; A Different Kind of Writer's Manual
- Author Rita Mae Brown
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Very Good +
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam, NY
- Date 1989
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 61677
- ISBN 9780553346305 / 055334630X
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.61 x 5.64 x 0.77 in (21.87 x 14.33 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87019535
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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- Publishers Weekly, 02/03/1989, Page 0
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