Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, & Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

"Aspiring novelists will be heartened."—Publishers Weekly

In Revisionaries, a writing expert takes you on an engrossing tour through the discarded drafts, false starts, and abandoned projects of influential writers. In the process, he dismantles some of our most deeply held—and most suffocating—ideas about what it takes to produce great creative work. You'll learn that:

• Franz Kafka lacked confidence
• Octavia Butler had writer's block
• F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote bad drafts
• Ralph Ellison got ove...