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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100553052462

ISBN-139780553052466

eBay Product ID (ePID)1412355

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStarting from Scratch : a Different Kind of Writers' Manual

SubjectWomen Authors, Authorship

Publication Year1988

TypeTextbook

AuthorRita Mae Brown

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Non-Classifiable, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-019535

Reviews"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. From the Trade Paperback edition., "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.

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisFrom the best-selling author of Rubyfruit Jungleand 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.R698Z47 1988