Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Writing as a Way of Life

Name: Writing as a Way of Life
SKU: 9781625571779
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Author: Brian Morton
ISBN: 9781625571779

A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion

Av Brian Morton

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In Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, novelist and memoirist Brian Morton provides writers with a guidebook for finding the psychic equipment they'll need to remain committed to their craft over the long haul. Filled with wisdom, humor, and heart, this is a book that will help writers at every level of experience grant themselves the permission to keep going. Drawing on a rich and varied career as a writer and teacher, Morton gives writers a masterclass in how to deepen their tenacity and their resilience.This is a book about falling in love and remaining in love with the practice of writing. "Most of the rewards that come from the writing life come from the act of writing itself. You don't have to wait for them. You can have them now." Weaving together stories from the lives of literary masters like Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Anton Chekhov, insights from different spiritual traditions, and lessons gleaned from a surprising array of artists and thinkers (including Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Thelonious Monk, Jean-Paul Sartre, Antonio Gramsci and Miss Manners!), Morton reveals writing to be a calling akin to meditation or prayer. "Writing is an act of devotion. It's an expression of our reverence for life and our arguments with life." Writing as a Way of Life is filled with practical, actionable tips for developing and sustaining a habit of writing that will last a lifetime. Instead of "long heroic efforts that leave blood on the keyboard," Morton recommends a gentler approach to making art. "The key to happiness is five hundred words a day. If you're a writer, five hundred words a day can save your life." Morton has written a generous, funny, humane, and friendly guide that writers will find empowering, because Morton reminds his readers at every turn that each writer must be guided by their own unique literary compass. This is a book for writers who are just starting out and for writers who've been at it for years. It's a book for anyone who writes and anyone who wants to write, anyone looking for ways to deepen their devotion to their art.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-09
Mått: 139 x 215 x 12 mm
Vikt: 294 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Serie: None
Antal sidor: 204
Förlag: Black Lawrence Press
ISBN: 9781625571779

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Writing as a Way of Life is an incredibly generous book and reflects everything Brian Morton is like as a teacher. He trusts the writer in front of him to take what they need and leave what they don't, while providing encouragement and common-sense advice, as well as permission to play around, fail often, and keep going anyway. —Ilana Masad, author of Beings and All My Mother's Lovers Of all the writers I have known, Brian Morton is the most generous, the most dedicated, and the most thoughtful. In Writing as a Way of Life, a distillation of five decades of reading and thinking about writing, he asks the most profound questions: Is it possible to write and to live? To be a writer and a decent human being? Does it matter if you know where to place an apostrophe? This is a book both practical and inspiring; both deeply ethical and very funny. It takes wisdom from Tolstoy, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, but also Major League Baseball. This is a book to be read, and re-read, and cherished. —Keith Gessen, author of A Terrible Country and All the Sad Young Literary Men Intimate, practical, and above all generous, Writing as a Way of Life belongs on the shortlist of great books about art-making—not as a problem to be solved, but as a reality to be lived. This isn’t to say that the 'craft’ of writing gets overlooked: Morton’s discussion of plot alone is worth the price of admission. But rarely has a writer spoken with such focus on, and endearing frankness about, ‘the psychic equipment you’ll need to keep going.’ Long one of our most distinguished novelists, readers, and teachers, Brian Morton provides an indispensable guide for those embarking on the writing life. —Garth Risk Hallberg, New York Times best-selling author of City on Fire and The Second Coming Brian Morton’s writing advice is brilliant, funny, bold, and eminently quotable. With his signature humor and wide-ranging intelligence, he sweeps us along into the heart of the writing life. —Rachel Kadish, author of The Weight of Ink Brian Morton was my fiction seminar professor. He is every bit as generous and nurturing in Writing as a Way of Life as he was to us in grad school. This book will help your craft and it will also help your soul. —Sidik Fofana, author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs“This is not a self-help book on how to write. This is about the devotion to writing as a way of life. And Morton has certainly proven himself as a worthy voice to assert that devotion.” —The Massachusetts Review“Morton’s advice and relaxed, reassuring style are certain to aid many writers in improving their craft and, more importantly, sticking with it.” —Library Journal

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