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Featured Book of the Month
The
Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication
by Ralph Keyes
Owl Books
222 pp
Feeling a little down about your writing career? Need a super-size dose
of encouragement? How about some positive reinforcement that your decision to write is not in vain and the hours invested
into your prose is time well-spent? In
The
Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication,
Ralph Keyes, author of ten books including
The
Courage to Write, shows writers how to adhere to a writing schedule, deal
with discouragers, overcome writer's block, plus much more.
The
Writer's Book of Hope will recharge your batteries and leave you with a
renewed sense of motivation towards your writing career.
Excerpt:
Like talent, "inspiration" is overrated when it comes to
writing....Serious writers write, inspired or not....Over time they discover
that routine is a better friend to them than inspiration. The simple fact of
sitting down to write day after day is what makes writers productive. Far from
being unusually inspired, most are remarkably diligent. They are milers, not
sprinters. Few authors consider literary lightning bolts an essential part of
what they do. "I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what
inspiration is," said Faulkner. "I've heard about it, but I never saw it."
Novelist William Kennedy said that while awaiting the muse on his days off from
the Albany Times-Union, he usually discovered she was off that day too.
Buy
The Writer's Book of Hope
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgement
Part One
Chapter 1: The Essential
Ingredient
Is Hope Necessary?
The Ethics of Encouragement
Honest Reassurance
The Meaning of Hope
Chapter 2: AFD Syndrome
Nerves Are Normal
Frustration Happens
Before Drinking Hemlock
Chapter 3: Dealing with Discouragers
Discouragers
Projectors
Enviers
Goads
The Ashes of Success
Chapter 4: Exorcising Excuses
I Don't Have Enough Time
I'm Not Talented Enough
I Hardly Ever Get Inspired
I Didn't Study Writing
I'm The Wrong Age
I'm Too Afraid I'll Fail
Part Two
Chapter 5: Rites of Rejection
An Occupational Hazard
Recycling Rejection
Rejection Hubris
Why Did They Have to Publish My Book?
The Vagaries of Rejection
Chapter 6: The Publishing Tribe
Why Publishing Resembles High School
The Writing Way, the Publishing Way
Tribal Customs
Territoriality
Matters of Taste
Chapter 7: Betting on Books
Shooting Craps
Conventional Wisdom, Publishing Division
We Just Can't See It
That Won't Sell!
Rhymes and Reasons
Categorical Imperatives
Part Three
Chapter 8: Encouragers
Family
Teachers
Mentors
Colleagues
Agents
Editors
Readers
Chapter 9: Keeping Hope Alive
Create a Consolation File
Study Acknowledgments
Attend Courses and Conferences
Group
Bone Up
Be Professional
Go Easy on Yourself
Be Tactical
Indulge Dubious Motives
Get Busy on Your Own Behalf
Chapter 10: The Best of Times
Chicken Soup for Small-Press Dummies
In the Traditions of Thoreau
E-Publishing
The Safety Net
Chapter 11: The Hopeful Writer
Divers
The Common Thread
No Ex-Writers
The Joy of Writing
Spit in the Face of Despair
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Buy
The
Writers Book of Hope
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I Wanna
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