This Creative Life
Sara Zarr
There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you’re like most writers, you’ve just about read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that we can live them with maybe a little more thought and intention--no matter the many interior and exterior obstacles that can threaten to derail our purpose.
In this companion book to her long-running podcast, Sara Zarr brings her sixteen-year publishing career and experience as a speaker, teacher, and mentor to a conversational and encouraging collection of hard-won insights about what it means not to just write (and perchance to publish), but to be a writer.
Duration - 3h 13m.
Author - Sara Zarr.
Narrator - Sara Zarr.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Sara Zarr ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you’re like most writers, you’ve just about read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that we can live them with maybe a little more thought and intention--no matter the many interior and exterior obstacles that can threaten to derail our purpose. In this companion book to her long-running podcast, Sara Zarr brings her sixteen-year publishing career and experience as a speaker, teacher, and mentor to a conversational and encouraging collection of hard-won insights about what it means not to just write (and perchance to publish), but to be a writer. Duration - 3h 13m. Author - Sara Zarr. Narrator - Sara Zarr. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Sara Zarr ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:10
Introduction
Duration:00:05:23
Disclaiming
Duration:00:04:17
Part I: The Writing Life
Duration:00:00:05
1. The Writing Life Defined for Our Purposes
Duration:00:03:12
2. The Writer You Are
Duration:00:07:21
3. Claiming
Duration:00:04:02
4. A Defense of Grandiosity
Duration:00:03:03
5. Identity & Family of Origin
Duration:00:07:57
6. Talent
Duration:00:10:21
7. Giving & Receiving Feedback
Duration:00:08:42
8. Attention & Curiosity
Duration:00:05:30
9. The People Business
Duration:00:02:06
10. Characteristics of a Sustainable Writing Life
Duration:00:11:01
11. Obstacles to a Sustainable Writing Life
Duration:00:17:31
Part II: Life at the Corner of Art & Commerce
Duration:00:00:06
12. Money: My Story and a Little Advice
Duration:00:09:59
13. To Market, To Market
Duration:00:07:40
14. The Middle of the Beginning
Duration:00:06:17
15. Platforms & Choices
Duration:00:02:21
16. Going to New York
Duration:00:07:31
17. Going Indie
Duration:00:11:47
18. Going Pro
Duration:00:08:30
Part III: The Internal Arc
Duration:00:00:05
19. Into the Labyrinth
Duration:00:02:42
20. Writing Won't Fix Your Childhood (But It Might Help)
Duration:00:05:59
21. Bad Days
Duration:00:06:04
22. Mission Statements & Manifestos
Duration:00:05:00
23. Gratitude: A Stay Against Bitterness
Duration:00:05:26
24. Revisioning
Duration:00:04:49
Epilogues
Duration:00:00:03
9 Lessons from 100 Conversations with Writers
Duration:00:07:28
11 Lessons from 15 Years in Book Publishing
Duration:00:09:46
Keep the Conversation Going
Duration:00:00:49
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:14