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Revisionaries : What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

Name: Revisionaries : What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers
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ISBN: 9781683693734

Kristopher Jansma

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Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. If you like to write—whether it’s a pastime, a passion, or a profession—you’ve probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, “I could never do this! I might as well give up.” But if there’s one thing every great author has in common, it’s this: they’ve all written some hot garbage. 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...

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2022

Publisher:

Quirk Books

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English

ISBN 10:

1683693736

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9781683693734