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A Writer's Workbook

Daily Exercises for the Writing Life

Caroline Sharp
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Pages
176
Year
2016
Language
English

About

Aspiring doctors have medical school. Karate students have belts of different colors. Pianists have scales and arpeggios. But, what system do writers have for getting and staying "in shape," to help them focus, practice, and make progress?

A Writer's Workbook is Caroline Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up, and jump-start anyone who writes. A wise and funny friend who will cheerlead you through even your darkest can't-write days and "every idea I've ever had is awful" nights, she provides encouraging suggestions, hilarious observations, and an amazingly vivid catalogue of writers' neuroses (with advice on overcoming them, of course).

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Reviews

"With this charming, insightful, and indispensable guide, Caroline Sharp may very well have ended writer's block in our time."
Albert J. Zuckerman, author of Writing the Blockbuster Novel
"Opened-hearted, ardent, and encouraging. A must-have book for students and teachers alike."
Elise Paschen, Executive Director, Poetry Society of America, and author of Infidelities
"A Writer's Workbook is the most generous favor to those among us who would write and could write, if only we could get down to work . . . This is a book for students, for professionals, for poets, for playwrights, for journalists and for those of you who don't even dare call yourself writers yet, except the most secret moments of the night."
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Stern Men, from the Foreword

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