The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life: An Instructional Memoir for Prose Writers

* Julianna Baggott, author of the Pure series and The Seventh Book of Wonders * The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life is more than motivational advice. Vanderslice shares humble insight for all writers. May, author of The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship and the Writing Life * . She understands what it takes to be a writer-psychologically and practically- for the long-term and here generously shares her wealth of advice. The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life is for every writer at every stage of his or her writing life because even the most experienced writers know those nagging questions-Can I write? Should I write? -never disappear completely. This is a per

Her column, The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life appears regularly in the Huffington Post. She publishes fiction, nonfiction and creative writing criticism including Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates: A Guide and SourcebookReth

What does that mean for the rest of us, the self-described writing geeks, who are passionate about writing and who still want to sustain successful literary lives? What does it really mean to find time to build a rewarding writing life while pursuing a career, being a partner or raising a family, in the distracted, time-deprived, 21st-century? In The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life, based on her Huffington Post blog of the same name, Stephanie Vanderslice shares the secrets and tools to developing a successful, rewarding writing practice in a way that inspires the reader to persevere through the inevitable lows and even the highs of a literary life, so that anyone can pursue the path to realizing their artistic dreams.. The desire to create, to write, to fulfil our artistic dreams is a powerful human need. Yet the number of people who make a living solely by their pen is actually quite small