In this space, I'll review some of my favorite books on the art and craft of writing. I hope they'll help you on your journey as much as they've helped me.
Time to Write: Professional writers reveal how to fit writing into your busy life by Kelly L. Stone changed my writing life. I picked up this little gem at the RWA conference bookstore in Washington, D.C. and found the answer to the question that has plagued me for years - how to write, hold down a full time job, and maintain a reasonably harmonious family life.
The author invited more than 100 professional writers to offer their tips and insights into this problem we all face. Then she provides several practical and flexible approaches to scheduling your writing around the existing demands in your life. She takes a firm, but gentle, approach to choosing what can be sacrificed, to getting buy-in from your family, and most importantly, to giving yourself permission to make the time to write.
In Rejection, Romance & Royalties: The Wacky World of a Working Writer by multi-published romance and fantasy author, Laura Resnick, the subtitle says it all. This book is a collection of articles Ms. Resnick wrote for the professional journals of Novelists, Inc., the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Romance Writers of America.
In them, she provides dozens of anecdotes of the misadventures professional writers face dealing with agents, editors, publishers, and readers. I found it wonderfully reassuring to learn that the frustrations I've faced as a writer are common and, in fact, pale in comparison to calamities suffered by other writers. Their careers survived, and so will ours.
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