. "Making a literary life : Advice for writers and other dreamers" . . . . . . . . . "The author offers an inspirational guide to the writing life, sharing anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as \"Keep your aspirations to yourself\" and \"Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.\"" . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . . . "Making a literary life : advice for writers and other dreamers"@en . "Making a literary life : advice for writers and other dreamers" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Making a literary life advice for writers and other dreamers"@en . "As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday'there may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there's always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you're sure is out there somewhere. Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, critic, and creative-writing professor into this marvelously engaging how-to book. Partly the nuts and bolts of writing (plot, point of view, character, voice) and partly an inspirational guide to living the life you dream of, Making a Literary Life takes you from the decision to \"become\" a writer to three months after the publication of your first book. A combination of writing and life strategies (do not tell everyone around you how you yearn to be a writer; send a \"charming note\" to someone you admire in the industry five days a week, every week, for the rest of your life; find the perfect characters right in front of you), Making a Literary Life is for people not usually considered part of the literary loop: the non'East Coasters, the secret scribblers. With sagacity, a magical sense of humor, and an abiding belief in the possibilities offered to \"ordinary\" people living \"ordinary\" lives, Carolyn See has summed up her life's work in a book so beguiling, irreverent, and giddily inspiring that you won't even realize it's changing your life until it already has. From the Hardcover edition."@en . . "Making a Literary Life Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers"@en . . . "Novelists, American 20th century Biography." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General" . . "Fiction Authorship." . . "1900 - 1999" . . . . "Authorship." . . "LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays." . .