The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life
An Instructional Memoir for Prose Writers
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
The desire to create, to write, to fulfil our artistic dreams is a powerful human need. Yet the number of people who make a living solely by their pen is actually quite small. What does that mean for the rest of us, the self-described writing geeks, who are passionate about writing and who still want to sustain successful literary lives? What does it really mean to find time to build a rewarding writing life while pursuing a career, being a partner or raising a family, in the distracted, time-deprived, 21st-century? In The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life, based on her Huffington Post blog of the same name, Stephanie Vanderslice shares the secrets and tools to developing a successful, rewarding writing practice in a way that inspires the reader to persevere through the inevitable lows and even the highs of a literary life, so that anyone can pursue the path to realizing their artistic dreams.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series-Text
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The geeks and the cool kids
- 1 Making the commitment
- 2 Doing the work (and, sometimes, not doing the work)
- 3 Connecting with readers: Publishing
- 4 Writing geeks unite: Finding your tribe
- 5 Continuing your education: What makes sense for you?
- 6 Making a living: Careers that support the writing life
- 7 Being teachable
- 8 Writing 2.0 or, platform-building can be fun
- 9 Traditional book publishing today: Finding and working with an agent
- 10 Making the show: They said âNo.â Now what? Or, they said âYes!â Now what?
- 11 Non-traditional book publishing: What you need to know
- 12 Before you go: Why we do this
- Appendix
- Index
- Copyright