You Know You're a Writer When
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2013
96 pages
978-1-4521-2630-2 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of reflections on the nature of what it means to be a writer.
How do you find out what being a writer means to those who really are writers? You ask them. In this book, Adair Lara shares what the ink-stained, carpal-tunneled, slightly dazed, word struck people she knows had to say.
You know you're a writer when...
... You'll never forgive your parents for your happy childhood.
... The doctor tells you that you have terminal cancer, and you think, "I can use this."
... You accidentally sign a check with your pen name.
... You know more than ten synonyms for "blue."
... You write your Christmas letter as if it were War and Peace.
Many readers will recognize themselves in this collection of observations about the eccentric, quirky, word-obsessed condition that is being a writer.More details
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Adair Lara
You Know Youre a Writer When
Book
09/2007
Chronicle Books
€28.67
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Person
Adair Lara, author of the charming and popular Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer and many other books, has been a reporter and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 16 years.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Half title
- There are three empty cereal bowls next to your computer-one for each meal.
- Sometimes you can no longer see the keyboard through your tears.
- You write what only you could write.
- You know that bracing self-confidence in a writer is a sign of psychic instability.
- As the handlebar breaks on your bike, you have the first line written before your head hits the pavement.
- You like everything about writing except the paperwork.
- About the Author
