Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers

As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday-there may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there's always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life into your exterior life, how to find and join that community of like-minded souls you're sure is out there somewhere.

Carolyn See distills a lifetime of experience as novelist, memoirist, ...