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...

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Opening Credits

1/21/2023

Introduction

1/21/2023

Disclaiming

1/21/2023

Part I: The Writing Life

1/21/2023

1. The Writing Life Defined for Our Purposes

1/21/2023

2. The Writer You Are

1/21/2023

3. Claiming

1/21/2023

4. A Defense of Grandiosity

1/21/2023

5. Identity & Family of Origin

1/21/2023

6. Talent

1/21/2023

7. Giving & Receiving Feedback

1/21/2023

8. Attention & Curiosity

1/21/2023

9. The People Business

1/21/2023

10. Characteristics of a Sustainable Writing Life

1/21/2023

11. Obstacles to a Sustainable Writing Life

1/21/2023

Part II: Life at the Corner of Art & Commerce

1/21/2023

12. Money: My Story and a Little Advice

1/21/2023

13. To Market, To Market

1/21/2023

14. The Middle of the Beginning

1/21/2023

15. Platforms & Choices

1/21/2023

16. Going to New York

1/21/2023

17. Going Indie

1/21/2023

18. Going Pro

1/21/2023

Part III: The Internal Arc

1/21/2023

19. Into the Labyrinth

1/21/2023

20. Writing Won't Fix Your Childhood (But It Might Help)

1/21/2023

21. Bad Days

1/21/2023

22. Mission Statements & Manifestos

1/21/2023

23. Gratitude: A Stay Against Bitterness

1/21/2023

24. Revisioning

1/21/2023

Epilogues

1/21/2023

9 Lessons from 100 Conversations with Writers

1/21/2023

11 Lessons from 15 Years in Book Publishing

1/21/2023

Keep the Conversation Going

1/21/2023

Ending Credits

1/21/2023