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Ten easy steps to becoming a writer : the art, craft, business, and teaching of creative writing
Title:
Ten easy steps to becoming a writer : the art, craft, business, and teaching of creative writing
Summary:
Every year, thousands of aspiring writers are duped by how-to-write books and MFA Creative Writing programs into sacrificing time and money in pursuit of the secret path to bestsellerdom. Ten Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer was written as an antidote to those false promises. The bestselling author of twenty-three books of fiction and nonfiction, Randall Silvis knows whereof he speaks. Called “a creative genius” by bestselling author William Allen, Silvis pulls no punches in his assessment of MFA creative writing programs, the American educational system in general, and the publishing industry. As much as it is a memoir and a loving consideration of the writing life, Ten Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer is also a scathing assessment of academia and an unflinching critique of the publishing world. In a series of personal and often intimate essays chronicling his forty years as a critically acclaimed writer, Randall Silvis shatters the myth that talent can be created in the classroom or absorbed from a book. -- Amazon.
Physical Description:
357 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher:
Randall Silvis,
Publication Date:
2024
ISBN:
9798865658740
Publication Information:
[Mercer, Pennsylvania] : Randall Silvis, [2024].

©2024
Call Number:
814 SILVIS
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