Welcome to the Writer's Life

How to Design Your Writing Craft, Writing Business, Writing Practice, and Reading Practice

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Pub Date 14 Aug 2018 | Archive Date 18 Jun 2019

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Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing
 
With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing.
 
In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.
Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing
 
With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life...

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ISBN 9781632171511
PRICE $18.95 (USD)
PAGES 320

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With great warmth and a light fun touch, award-winning author Paulette Perhach shepherds writers to productive success in WELCOME TO THE WRITER’S LIFE. Especially good for beginners, but helpful for writers at any level who need that extra oomph to keep fighting the good fight. Covers getting started, improving craft, adding in a valuable reading habit, and mastering the biz and marketing sides. Also incorporates current success psychology and lifestyle design, while offering exercises, checklists, infographics, tools, and writers’ insider tips to boost confidence and skill levels. Written in a highly relatable style from one who’s been there. 5/5

Pub Date 14 Aug 2018

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I became familiar with Paulette Perhach's writing when she wrote the now famous Bleep It Fund (I'm changing it for family audiences) essay for Billfold. I knew whatever book she would write, I would read it. What made it even better: her first book is a writing book.
It's a lovely starter's kit on what to expect in the writing world these days. Perhach shares how serving in the Peace Corps made her become a writer. She then shares how she got work done while working a 9to5 job, and how we can do it as well. It also has plenty of quotes from writers Jess Walters and others that provide a balm on bad writing days. Step by step, she shows how it's possible to write every day, write every day, write every day. It's a blessing of a book.
Thanks to NetGalley for providing me a copy.

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