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Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers
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ISBN10: 1683693736
ISBN13: 9781683693734
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781683693734
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. A pocket-size book of wonders. . . . Both astute and empathetic.--Wall Street Journal Aspiring novelists will be heartened.--Publishers Weekly In Revisionaries, a writing expert takes you on an engrossing tour through the discarded drafts, false starts, and abandoned projects of influential writers. In the process, he dismantles some of our most deeply held--and most suffocating--ideas about what it takes to produce great creative work. You'll learn that:
- Franz Kafka lacked confidence
- Octavia Butler had writer's block
- F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote bad drafts
- Ralph Ellison got overwhelmed
- Louisa May Alcott got off to a bad start
- And more deep, dark secrets about the authors you most admire
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