This Creative Life
A Handbook for Writers
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This Creative Life
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Narrateur(s):
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Sara Zarr
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Sara Zarr
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There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you’re like most writers, you’ve just about read or listened to them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that we can live them with maybe a little more thought and intention—no matter the many interior and exterior obstacles that can threaten to derail our purpose.
In this companion book to her long-running podcast, Sara Zarr brings her 16-year publishing career and experience as a speaker, teacher, and mentor to a conversational and encouraging collection of hard-won insights about what it means not to just write (and perchance to publish), but to be a writer.
©2022 Sara Zarr (P)2022 Sara ZarrI’ve always loved her work; she’s the first name that comes to mind when someone asks who my favourite YA writer of contemporary realistic fiction is. When I’m in a slump, I often revisit her books to remind myself what good writing looks and feels like. (Gem & Dixie will always be so close to my heart.)
This Creative Life is about what it means to be a writer — how to stay true to yourself and your values, how to survive in a world that is very, very shouty, and how to believe in your story (and yourself). Sara’s honesty, transparency, and vulnerability are the reason for my big exhale. Reading (or listening to) this book feels like having coffee with someone who really gets you. I felt seen, heard, called out, supported, encouraged, tough-loved, reminded, and appreciated.
I finished the book inspired and motivated to roll up my sleeves and get back to the messy middle of my manuscript — but if I need to take another break, even a long one, that’s okay too. At the risk of sounding super cheesy, the journey really is where the magic happens.
I loved this book and appreciated Sara’s quiet wisdom.
Here’s a little banger about bitterness from the book that I jotted down in my journal:
“Bitterness is the enemy of creativity and hope. Bitterness is when you take your eyes off your own paper and start looking at what others are doing and getting, fixating on how you feel wronged, obsessing over why you’re better than X author who gets all the good gigs, nursing grudges and spending more time editing your list of nemeses than editing your novel.”
We’ve all been there. Thanks, Sara.
This Book Felt Like A Hug
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