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Featured Book of the Month
Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide
to Igniting the Writer Within
by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Harcourt
262 pp
Is your daily schedule
packed with tasks and responsibilities? Does finding "writing time" seem like an
elusive dream that you'll never be able to grasp? If so, then you'll love
Pen on Fire. Throughout the book, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett shows writers how
to maximize their productivity by using 15-minute "time chunks." (It's amazing
how much you CAN accomplish in this small amount of time.) Whether you're a
novice or a seasoned pro, DeMarco-Barrett's wisdom—along
with anecdotes from other writers—will
get you thinking, and more importantly, writing. Each chapter of this inspiring
book concludes with thought-provoking exercises, guaranteed to set your
Pen on Fire!
Excerpt:
Talent seems to be inverse to confidence. Some of the most talented
writers I know are reluctant to send out their work, so convinced are they that
no one will ever publish it. Not even threats of withholding coffee or
chocolate, or being condemned to write in longhand forever, can get them to
print out a copy of their story, stuff it in an envelope with a self-addressed
stamped envelope, and mail it off.
I encourage my students to resist
negativity at all cost. In my university classes, I write on the board: NO
DISCLAIMERS. I hammer it into all my students: You must shut out all the
negative voices that say you'll never write as well as you hope, that you are
just no good and why bother. You must hang a mental partition between you and
your internal censor, the nag, the critic who says your writing stinks and the
editor who points out every little, and not-so-little glitch.
Want to Read More?
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
Before You Begin
Writing Like There's No Tomorrow
Late Bloomers
Hang a Partition
Getting Started
Stolen Moments
Freewriting Shall Set You Free
Load the Basket, Fill the Jug
Harvesting Words
First Lines
Create a Written Snapshot
Through a Child's Eyes and Ears
Making Lists
Start Small
Regarding Research
Tools & Rituals
Leave Your Shoes at the Door
Writers' Utensils
Where Writers Work
Walk! Refresh! Have Fun!
Motel Motivation
Napkins, Notebooks, and Journals
Teaching Your Pen to Listen
Writers Groups
Mining Your Life
Expose Yourself
Celebrate Your Otherness
Using the Ones You Love
Breaking the Chains
Words Can Be So Powerful
Life Imitating Art
Beads of Sweat...or Pleasure
Craft
Form
Plot or Not
Creating Tension
Voice and Style
Play to Your Strength
Point of View
Titles: The Port of Entry
Character Building
Compassion 101
Say What? Writing Dialogue
Set the Stage
Poetry: The Beautiful Stepchild
Obsessed with Detail
Revision
You Are What You Read
Overcoming the Obstacles
The Black Hole: TV
Housework
Eddiction.com
Fickle Minds
Rejection
Green with Envy
Trusting Fear
Mentors
Keep Your Lips Sealed
Significant Others
Living the Life
Marketplace Madness
Sacrifice
Literary Agents
Set Your Pen on Fire
Acknowledgements
Suggested Reading
Buy Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within
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