The Creative Writer's Survival Guide
Beginning with aThe Writeras WonderlandaOr: A Warninga and ending with aYouave Published a BookaNow What?a The Creative Writeras Survival Guide is a must-read for creative-writing students and teachers, conference participants, and aspiring writers of every stamp. Directed primarily at fiction writers but suitable for writers of all genres, John McNallyas guide is a comprehensive, take-no-prisoners blunt, highly idiosyncratic, and delightfully subjective take on the writing life. McNally has earned the right to dispense advice on this subject. He has published three novels, two collections of short fiction, and hundreds of individual stories and essays. He has edited six anthologies and worked with editors at university presses, commercial houses, and small presses. He has earned three degrees, including an MFA from the Iowa Writersa Workshop, and taught writing to thousands of students at nine different universities. But he has received far more rejections than acceptances, has endured years of underpaid adjunct work, and is presently hard at work on a novel for which he has no guarantee of publication. In other words, heas been at the writing game long enough to rack up plenty of the highs and lows that translate into an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to become a writer or anyone who is already a writer but doesnat know how to take the next step toward the writing life. In the sections The Decision to Become a Writer, Education and the Writer, Getting Published, Publicity, Employment for Writers, and The Writeras Life, McNally wrestles with writing degrees and graduate programs, the nuts and bolts of agents and query letters and critics, book signings and other ways to promote your book, alcohol and other home remedies, and jobs for writers from adjunct to tenure-track. Chapters such as aWhat Have You Ever Done Thatas Worth Writing About?a aCan Writing Be Taught?a aRejection: Putting It in Perspective, a aWriting as a Competitive Sport, a aSeven Types of MLA Interview Committees, a aMoney and the Writer, a and the all-important aTalking about Writing vs. Writinga cover a vast range of writerly topics from learning your craft to making a living at it. McNally acts as the writeras friendly drill sergeant, relentlessly honest but bracingly cheerful as he issues his curmudgeonly marching orders. Alternately cranky and philosophical, full of to-the-point anecdotes and honest advice instead of wonkish facts and figures, The Creative Writeras Survival Guide is a snarky, truthful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer in todayas complex world.For the student, hitting up professors for letters of recommendation can be a humiliating experience. ... writing sample, the best writing sample anyone on the admission committeea#39;s ever seen, but your letters of recommendation clearly indicateanbsp;...
| Title | : | The Creative Writer's Survival Guide |
| Author | : | John McNally |
| Publisher | : | University of Iowa Press - 2010-04-15 |
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