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Author Friedman, Bonnie, 1958- author.

Title Writing past dark : envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life / Bonnie Friedman.

Edition Updated edition.
Publication Info. New York : Harper Perennial, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2942044~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  808.02019 FRI    AVAILABLE
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Description xxiii, 146 pages ; 21 cm
Note With a new preface.
Contents Why I Wrote This Book -- Preface -- 1. Envy, the writer's disease -- 2. Message from a cloud of flies: on distraction -- 3. Your mother's passions, your sister's woes: writing about the living -- 4. The paraffin density of wax wings: writing school -- 5. The Wild Yellow Circling Beast: writing from the inside -- 6. The story's body: how to get the meaning in -- 7. Anorexia of language: why we can't write -- 8. Glittering icons, lush orchards: on success.
Summary An indispensable guide for writers that explores the emotional side of writing and offers insightful advice on overcoming writer's block, procrastination, guilt, and more.
Subject Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
Authors -- Psychology.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Emotions.
Genre Essays.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780062981103 paperback
0062981102 paperback
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