{"product_id":"starting-from-scratch-a-different-kind-of-writers-manual","title":"Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eStarting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRita Mae Brown\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780553346305\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1989\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"A writer's manual that reads like a cross between \"Writers Digest\" and Allan Bloom's \"The Closing Of The American Mind.\"\"-- \"The Washington Post.\"\u003cp\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \"Rubyfruit Jungle\" and \"Bingo,\" here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal account of her own career, from her days as a young poet who had written a novel no publisher wanted to take a chance on, right up to her recent adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy style that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining as it is useful, she provides straight talk about paying the rent while maintaining the energy to write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics, and the publicity circus; about pursuingj ournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejecting the Hemingway myth of the hard-living, hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher or writing, offers a serious examination of the writer's tool--language, plotting, characters, symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue, and a fascinating, annoted reading list of important works from the seventh century to the late twentieth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work.\"-- \"Columbus Sunday Dispatch\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual | Rita Mae Brown | Paperback | 9780553346305 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks G 1746864","offer_id":48842598416536,"sku":"1746864","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71yHOcFx3SL.jpg?v=1775236153","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/starting-from-scratch-a-different-kind-of-writers-manual","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}