How to Be a Writer Who Makes Money, Flies High and Dazzles the Folks Back Home. Oh Yeah!
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You are about to join the hundreds of thousands of smart folks worldwide who have read these chapters, and upon such reading jumped up and down shouting, "Eureka!".
Well, you've found the folks who can help you write your way up and out ... and if that doesn't call for a dram or two I don't know what does.
So, bottoms up, skol, here's mud in your eye, baby, you are in the right place... now don't blow it. Your ship has come in... Don’t miss it.
This masterpiece is divided into three parts, each one focusing on a particular aspect of the writer's weird and wonderful life, understandable only to writers and artists of each and every kind, for writers are a nuclear explosion of words, more words, the most words of all, the right words, the may-a-bird- of-paradise-fly-up-your-nose words that confuse, confound, and complicate for no other reason that we are fundamentally anti-social and infrequently bathed and love talking over the heads of people born to worship and venerate us. That is always a hoot.
Chapter 1 takes you inside the book conglomerate of the aristocratic Longfords
where virtually every member is a bestselling author. I wanted to know how they
did it. And so I asked for the privilege of dropping by for a chat. When I
called, the Earl of Longford picked up the phone. "Elizabeth's in the loo,"
and in an hour I was sitting in the London drawing room of this most charming
and shrewd of women, who gave me the best advice on writing and
becoming a "scribbler", the highest award. Now I'm passing this advice
on to you.
Chapter 2 "I'm working on my re-write."
Face this fact squarely and at once. You are not going to sit down and
write word-perfect copy. It ain't gonna happen. What will happen is that
you will write, re-write, re-write, then write some more and re-write,
re-write. That's why Paul Simon's trenchant description of the
re-writer's life is so timely. Serious writers will read this chapter and
bite the bullet of absolute necessity. They're on the right track.
And as for those who don't read this chapter carefully and implement it
at once, then Simon's acidic lyrics are for you. Listen carefully. They
were written for you.
Chapter 3. The sad lesson of Holly Hickler.
Read this chapter and get enraged, because this is a chapter
about how one writer got terrible advice about writing, and so spent
a long lifetime wanting to write, but never writing. To ensure this
doesn't happen to you, read this, read, and then start writing. Poor
Holly didn't have the benefit of my expertise, but you do! And this
chapter will connect us and get you going, making sure that Holly's
barren example stays before you at all times.
Now get started.
Well, you've found the folks who can help you write your way up and out ... and if that doesn't call for a dram or two I don't know what does.
So, bottoms up, skol, here's mud in your eye, baby, you are in the right place... now don't blow it. Your ship has come in... Don’t miss it.
This masterpiece is divided into three parts, each one focusing on a particular aspect of the writer's weird and wonderful life, understandable only to writers and artists of each and every kind, for writers are a nuclear explosion of words, more words, the most words of all, the right words, the may-a-bird- of-paradise-fly-up-your-nose words that confuse, confound, and complicate for no other reason that we are fundamentally anti-social and infrequently bathed and love talking over the heads of people born to worship and venerate us. That is always a hoot.
Chapter 1 takes you inside the book conglomerate of the aristocratic Longfords
where virtually every member is a bestselling author. I wanted to know how they
did it. And so I asked for the privilege of dropping by for a chat. When I
called, the Earl of Longford picked up the phone. "Elizabeth's in the loo,"
and in an hour I was sitting in the London drawing room of this most charming
and shrewd of women, who gave me the best advice on writing and
becoming a "scribbler", the highest award. Now I'm passing this advice
on to you.
Chapter 2 "I'm working on my re-write."
Face this fact squarely and at once. You are not going to sit down and
write word-perfect copy. It ain't gonna happen. What will happen is that
you will write, re-write, re-write, then write some more and re-write,
re-write. That's why Paul Simon's trenchant description of the
re-writer's life is so timely. Serious writers will read this chapter and
bite the bullet of absolute necessity. They're on the right track.
And as for those who don't read this chapter carefully and implement it
at once, then Simon's acidic lyrics are for you. Listen carefully. They
were written for you.
Chapter 3. The sad lesson of Holly Hickler.
Read this chapter and get enraged, because this is a chapter
about how one writer got terrible advice about writing, and so spent
a long lifetime wanting to write, but never writing. To ensure this
doesn't happen to you, read this, read, and then start writing. Poor
Holly didn't have the benefit of my expertise, but you do! And this
chapter will connect us and get you going, making sure that Holly's
barren example stays before you at all times.
Now get started.