Welcome to the Writer’s Life: How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice

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Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing
 
With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing.
 
In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.

From the Publisher

The Writer’s Time Budget

If time is your currency, as a writer, how do you spend it? Do you freewrite? Read? Scroll around a writers’ forum? How do we prioritize all the activities that compose a writing life?

It’s chaotic. Don’t ever expect to fully master the chaos. Just try to corral the chaos into a manageable shape. One way to do that is to understand what’s most essential. Putting these things first will produce the most progress. Here are the parts of a writing life, from most important to least:

Writing Reading Great Works Reading Widely Sending Your Work Out Marketing, Networking, and Social Media Adventuring Hanging Out with Writers

Your Writing Craft

We humans have learned a few things along the way about how this literature thing works, and “craft” is what we call that knowledge. Learning how to deploy craft gives you the ancient elixir for creating powerful writing.

What is the scope of craft? It’s zooming all the way out to structure, organization, and point of view. It’s zooming all the way in to imagery, cadence, and rhyme. It’s artistry, expertise, and technique.

You’re not born with craft. You learn craft. Improving your skills, as in any other realm of the universe, will improve the quality of your output. The brilliant work of your future will be created by adding skill to your existing talent and working with persistence for years.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sasquatch Books; Illustrated edition (August 14, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1632171511
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1632171511
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 7.5 inches