Escaping Into the Open - The Art of Writing True

"Crystal clear, bracing as ice water, Escaping Into the Open should be read by all scribblers regardless of material success." --Rita Mae Brown "This is a really good book." -- Booklist Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep , The Year of Pleasures , and the acclaimed Oprah Book Club Selection, Open House . With Escaping Into the Open , she offers an inspiring, eminently entertaining, and delightfully practical handbook on the joys, challenges, and creative possibilities inherent in the writing life. Now revised with new material--a classic in the vein of Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird --Elizabeth Berg's Escaping Into the Open is an indispensable guide for any aspiring storyteller.

Product details

• Authors: ELIZABETH BERG
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.1999
• EAN: 9780060191795
• ISBN: 978-0-06-019179-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, SELF-HELP: Creativity, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Etymology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Fiction Writing, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Style Manuals, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, EDUCATION: Reference, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Semantics, EDUCATION: Teaching / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs