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Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual by Brown, Rita Mae Ma
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- ISBN
- 9780553346305
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Starting from Scratch : a Different Kind of Writers' Manual
- Item Length
- 8.1 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Subject
- Personal & Practical Guides, Authorship, Literary, Composition & Creative Writing
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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From the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo , here is a writers' manual as provocative,frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike mostwriters' guides, this one had as much to do with howwriters live as with mastering the tools of theirtrade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personalaccount of her own career, from her days as a youngpoet who had written a novel no publisher wantedto take a chance on, right up to her recentadventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy stylethat makes her outspoken advice as entertaining asit is useful, she provides straight talk aboutpaying the rent while maintaining the energy towrite; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics,and the publicity circus; about pursuingjournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejectingthe Hemingway myth of the hard-living,hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher orwriting, offers a serious examination of thewriter's tool--language, plotting, characters,symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue,and a fascinating, annoted reading list ofimportant works from the seventh century to the latetwentieth.
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Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
055334630x
ISBN-13
9780553346305
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038432067
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Starting from Scratch : a Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Personal & Practical Guides, Authorship, Literary, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
1989
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
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Trade
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"Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."-- Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross between Writers Digest and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind ."-- The Washington Post ., "Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."--Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross betweenWriters Digestand Allan Bloom'sThe Closing of the American Mind."--The Washington Post., "Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."-- Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross between Writers Digest and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind ."-- The Washington Post ., "Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."--Columbus Sunday Dispatch "A writer's manual that reads like a cross between Writers Digest and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind."--The Washington Post. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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813/.54
Dewey Edition
19
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