Dear Writer (eBook)

Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life

Maggie Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
238 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83726-049-2 (ISBN)

Infos

'How I wish I'd had access to this book when I was first starting out as a writer! Maggie Smith has created an offering here of great substance and generosity - walking writers of all levels through the sometimes wild and terrifying landscape of literary endeavour' ELIZABETH GILBERTDrawing from her twenty years of teaching experience, bestselling writing career and popular newsletter, in Dear Writer Maggie Smith breaks down the craft of writing and creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection and hope.Each element is explored through short, inspiring and focused essays on everything from writing habits to word choice, white space and redrafting. Throughout, Maggie offers practical writing prompts and generative activities that apply to the area of focus and sharpen creative skills. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.

Autor

Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison and Keep Moving. Her newest book is My Thoughts Have Wings, her debut picture book for children, illustrated by Leanne Hatch. Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Paris Review, TIME, Nation, Atlantic and Best American Poetry. @MaggieSmithPoet | maggiesmithpoet.com

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2025
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: anne lamott • big magic • Bird by Bird • Body Work • Craft in the Real World • dani shapiro • dean young • Elizabeth Gilbert • Julia Cameron • Mary Karr • Matt Bell • Matthew Salesses • melissa febos • natalie goldberg • On Writing • Refuse to Be Done • Rick Rubin • Stephen King • Still Writing • the artist's way • The Art of Memoir • The Art of Recklessness • the creative act • Writing Down the Bones
• ISBN-10: 1-83726-049-4 / 1837260494
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83726-049-2 / 9781837260492