Starting from Scratch

分類: 图书,进口原版,ELT(英语学习),
品牌: Rita Mae Brown
基本信息出版社:Bantam (1989年3月1日)平装:272页正文语种:英语ISBN:055334630X条形码:9780553346305商品尺寸:14 x 1.3 x 21.6 cm商品重量:322 g品牌:BantamASIN:055334630X商品描述内容简介From the best-selling author ofRubyfruit JungleandBingo, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction. Unlike most writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal account of her own career, from her days as a young poet who had written a novel no publisher wanted to take a chance on, right up to her recent adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy style that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining as it is useful, she provides straight talk about paying the rent while maintaining the energy to write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics, and the publicity circus; about pursuingj ournalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejecting the Hemingway myth of the hard-living, hard-drinking genius. In addition Brown, a former teacher or writing, offers a serious examination of the writer's tool--language, plotting, characters, symbolism--plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue, and a fascinating, annoted reading list of important works from the seventh century to the late twentieth.媒体推荐"Funny enough in places to make you laugh aloud but honest enough to weed out the weak of heart who think writing is made by muses rather than writers' hard work."--Columbus Sunday Dispatch
"A writer's manual that reads like a cross betweenWriters Digestand Allan Bloom'sThe Closing of the American Mind."--The Washington Post. --Review