Rita Mae Brown
From the best-selling author ofÂ Â ,Rubyfruit Jungle, andÂ Â ,Bingo,, here is a writers' manual as provocative,Â Â frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike mostÂ Â writers' guides, this one had as much to do with howÂ Â writers live as with mastering the tools of theirÂ Â trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personalÂ Â account of her own career, from her days as a youngÂ Â poet who had written a novel no publisher wantedÂ Â to take a chance on, right up to her recentÂ Â adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy styleÂ Â that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining asÂ Â it is useful, she provides straight talk aboutÂ Â paying the rent while maintaining the energy toÂ Â write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics,Â Â and the publicity circus; about pursuingjÂ Â ournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejectingÂ Â the Hemingway myth of the hard-living,Â Â hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher orÂ Â writing, offers a serious examination of theÂ Â writer's tool--language, plotting, characters,Â Â symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue,Â Â and a fascinating, annoted reading list ofÂ Â important works from the seventh century to the lateÂ Â twentieth.
Language,Writing,Nonfiction,Reference,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography
Starting from Scratch