On this CD, you get more than 100 pages of timeless writing and publishing advice as well as inspiration from some of the finest writers of our times. For the first time, the renowned writer-to-writer WD Interview series is being made available in this easy-to-use PDF format, so they'll work with both PCs and Macintosh computers with the free Adobe Reader (version 5.0 or higher).
Some highlights include:
John Updike: "We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. If we can't make up stories about ordinary people, who can we make them up about?"
Jeffrey Eugenides: "Stay in touch with the first impulses that made you start writing—the pleasure of it and the interest of the story, and not so much the professional side of things. Remain close to that—when you began writing and were intoxicated with it. If you do, the rest will come."
Joyce Carol Oates: "I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily."
These compelling and inspiring interviews with some of the best-known names in writing include:
Jane Smiley
Jennifer Weiner
Alice Hoffman
Ted Kooser
Po Bronson
Gay Talese
Jay McInerney
Anna Quindlen
Sebastian Junger
Alexander McCall Smith
John Searles
Augusten Burroughs
Mark Winegardner
Fannie Flagg
James Rollins
Melissa Bank
Michael Connelly
Bill Bryson
Jack Kerley
Caroline Alexander
Margaret Atwood
Marian Keyes
Dave Eggers
Jeffrey Eugenides
Michael Chabon
John Updike
Tom Clancy
Joyce Carol Oates
Janet Evanovich
Ann Brashares
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