
Minding the Muse
A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators
Priscilla Long(Author)
Coffeetown Press
Published on 1. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-60381-363-1 (ISBN)
Description
Minding the Muse is a practical handbook for the artist or writer-highly experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between. Long draws from her extensive background as a poet, writer, and master teacher, but also gathers the insights and practices of a wide range of high-achieving artists, including mystery writer Raymond Chandler, choreographer Twyla Tharp, poet and performance artist Patti Smith, and the painter Joan Miró. Beginning with the first sparks of artistic creation-"Gathering, Hoarding, Conceptualizing"-Long moves through the various stages to "Completing Works" and "Poet as Peddler, Painter as Pusher: Marketing." Every creative worker will find something here to take to heart and into the studio or workroom.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
147 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60381-363-1 (9781603813631)
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Person
Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based author and teacher of writing. Her work includes poetry, creative nonfictions, fictions, history, and science. Her other most recent book is Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Her book of poems is Crossing Over: Poems. She is also author of The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life and the scholarly history book Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. For more information please visit PriscillaLong.com and PriscillaLong.org.