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Dear Writer

Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

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Dear Writer

By: Maggie Smith
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New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.

Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.

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©2025 Maggie Smith (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing
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I like that she has exercises and prompts for getting your juices going, very personable reflections on issues that affect writers. Great listen, and I’ll definitely listen to this many times!

Very good pep-talk for writers!

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This is the second book I’ve listened to by Maggie Smith. While I adore her and her writing, her read-aloud intonation pattern gets extremely repetitive. After the second book, I just couldn’t keep listening to it because it began to sound like she had only one or two ways of saying a sentence. I will be buying a printed copy instead.

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