It Takes a Certain Type to be a Writer: Facts from the World of Writing and PublishingConari Press, 2003 M08 1 - 193 páginas Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows including Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they've written twenty books. The sixth book in the Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining (TRUE) Trivia Series puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers. It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer will tell you everything you could possibly want, or were afraid, to know about writers, publishing, and the writing life. Bite-sized facts are organized into chapters including "Everyone's a Critic", "Stranger than Fiction", "From Bad to Verse," "Kiddie Lit", "A Word's Worth," and many more. You'll learn things like: where Proust wrote (in bed with gloves on); what Voltaire drank (70 cups of coffee a day); and how James Cain prepared himself for yet another publisher's rejection. (The title The Postman Always Rings Twice had nothing to do with the plot of the best-selling novel. It was a private joke of author James Cain. His postman would ring his doorbell twice whenever the many-times-rejected manuscript came back from a publisher.) |
Contenido
Dont Quit Your Day Job | 1 |
If at First Dont Succeed | 18 |
Whats in a Name? | 24 |
The Ties That Bind and Sometimes Gag | 37 |
Tips Tricks of the Trade | 49 |
Everyones a Critic | 55 |
Stranger Than Fiction | 72 |
Quoth the Writer | 79 |
Kiddie Lit | 105 |
thirteen | 114 |
Saint Sinners Quirks Outrages | 120 |
Easy Reading Is Damned Hard Writing | 132 |
A Words Worth | 148 |
Random Facts from the Bibliophiles | 158 |
the End | 178 |
Selected References | 191 |
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