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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Jansma, Kristopher

Hardcover

Literary CriticismWriting InstructionSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $19.99

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
A pocket-size book of wonders. . . . Both astute and empathetic.--Wall Street Journal

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:

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