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There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a better writer, technically. However, very few books will give you advice about how to survive while being a writer.
That's why I ask every Five Easy Questions guest how they balanced a day job and a their writing career, because those survival tips can save your life.
Over at SlushPile, there is an essay about the Holy Grail of writing handbooks:
"I’m talking about a resource that breaks down publishing contracts and business manuvers into minute detail. Pat Walsh’s 78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might is probably the best in regards to the mechanics of the industry. I wish there was a publishing equivalent to Marc Ferrari’s Rock Star 101: A Rock Star’s Guide to Survival and Success in the Music Business."
Well, I might have found the answer to that question over at the MFA Blog, where Austin Kleon is writing about a Marriage Guide for Writers. That writer is plugging the writing handbook, Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer, which seems to be dedicated to the business of staying sane as a writer. No small task...
"It is almost impossible to write a novel any better than the best novel you've read in the three-to-six months before you began your own...Thus, you must read excellent novels regularly."
That's a bit of advice from Samuel R. Delany in the writing handbook, Rebel Yell.
That book was created by University of Utah writing professor, Lance Olsen. He's written nine novels himself, and this week he is our special guest, discussing his new book, Anxious Pleasures and sharing tips for fledgling writers.
Welcome to my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.
Jason Boog:
Where do you send your students for writing inspiration? What are the websites and writing resources you consult regularly? Who do you read for inspiration?
Lance Olsen:
Well, in addition to the predictable shameless plug for my own fiction-writing guidebook, Rebel Yell, which provides lots of exercises to get the creative juices flowing, let me also suggest Brian Kiteley's 3 A. M. Epiphany, a remarkable compilation of primers. Continue reading...
