Finishing School : The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done

• Autore: Tennis Cary
• Pubblicazione: East Rutherford : , : Penguin Publishing Group, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Disciplina: 808.02
• Soggetto topico: Authorship; Creative writing
• Altri autori: MortonDanelle
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Why we don't finish the projects we love -- Part 1: The six emotional pitfalls -- How we choose the six emotional pitfalls -- Doubt: "I think I can't". Doubt masquerading as self-knowledge: "I'm a terrible writer" ; Doubt clothed in cynicism: "All my ideas are clichés, but clichés sell" ; Doubt parading as pessimism: "I'll never get published" -- Shame: "I am ashamed of not finishing and too ashamed to finish". Are you lying to yourself? ; "Everyone knows I'm a failure": the monologue that stops you cold ; "I'm letting the world down by not being a total genius": the problem with early potential -- Yearning: "Does my dream of being a writer get in the way of my writing?". The yearning for perfection: "I must write the perfect first sentence of else!" ; The trap of symbolic victories: resisting the clarion call of the office supply store ; The yearning for acclaim: the sore loser award -- Fear: "What am I actually afraid of?". "Who the hell am I to think I can write?" ; "I'll never know enough, so why even start?" ; The bear and the magpie -- Judgment: "Whose judgment do I fear, and how can I proceed in spite of it?". The special problem of telling the truth about your family ; The Winchester mystery novel: denying mortality by endlessly revising ; "It's all been said before, so why bother?" -- Arrogance: "How does arrogance blind me to what must be done?". "Actually, it's a trilogy" ; "I'm willing to be judged, but only if I'm judged the victor" ; "I don't need help; I'd rather fail in secret" ; The surprising upside of healthy arrogance: as revealed by a teenage wrestler -- Part 2: How it works -- Danelle's two months in finishing school -- The problem with writers' groups and how finishing school is different -- What can you accomplish in one month? -- The four phases of creativity -- On not reading each other's work -- Part 3: Dealing with time itself -- Time and its tricks -- Picking up the rock of the paragraph -- My fake schedule -- Setting achievable goals and meeting them -- Writing day by day -- Part 4: How to create your own finishing school -- The crisis that created finishing school -- Finishing school for two -- How to set up a full-scale finishing school of your own -- Tips for a leader: how to listen -- Part 5: Finishing -- John Steinbeck's five months in finishing school -- The completion high: what finishing feels like -- Finishing well, no matter how it ends -- The detailed scenario of doneness -- Conclusion: The declaration of done.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Tennis first convened a Finishing School so that writers could help one another stay on track and complete their work. Since they werent actually critiquing one anothers writing, there was no jockeying for the title of best writer or the usual writing group politics; there was only a shared commitment to progress. Without guilt, blame, and outside critique, students were more productive than they imagined possible. Through this program, they were able to complete novels that theyd been struggling with for almost two decades, finish screenplays drafts, and revive interest in long-neglected PhD theses. In this book, the authors share this proven and easily replicable technique, as well as their own writing success stories."--Amazon.com.
• Titolo autorizzato: Finishing School
• ISBN: 0-399-18471-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154294903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II