
Still Writing
The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
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Dani Shapiro
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Dani Shapiro
"Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers, and everyone in between." (Jennifer Egan)
From Dani Shapiro, best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate companion to living a creative life. Writers - and anyone with an artistic temperament - will find inspiration and comfort here. Offering lessons learned over 20 years of teaching and writing, Shapiro shares her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers.
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Practical, heartfelt encouragement for the writing life
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And reading her book in this Audible version, the author assumed an off-putting "priestess voice."
Reading her book, the author assumes an off-putting "priestess voice."
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Great insights into "being" a writer
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Phenomenal book on writing
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Excellent account of the writing life
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Like permission to just be. To just write. Thank you.
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Expansive!
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Beautiful, useful and encouraging
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An enjoyable audiobook
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I'm very grateful Dani decided to record this and her first memoir, SLOW MOTION, for Audible during the Pandemic. As I listen to them, I am re-visiting her written words - but I am also LISTENING to HER as she narrates her own words and personal stories. She has been at this practice for a long time now and her advice comes with an EDGE. A protective EDGE. A warning EDGE. A knowing EDGE. An EDGE because her life has gifted her with words she has been able to splice together into a verbal reckoning. Writers beware. The EDGE of someone who now creatively thrives in the silence of the country – and who could not have known at the time she wrote STILL WRITING (but does have that perspective as she reads her book) that literary notoriety would propel her into the spotlight in 2019 – when her memoir, INHERITANCE, became a New York Times Bestseller and inspired the hit podcast, FAMILY SECRETS and sent Ancestry.com stock through the roof!
Some of us are social hermits who enjoy the solitude that allows us to think, thrive, and create - and yet, many of us also need to come out of isolation and come up for air to find, as she recently posted on Instagram, "pockets of joy," whenever we can. I'm a huge fan of Dani's work and there are great life lessons here for staying present, noticing your surroundings, adjusting to the discomfort of creative isolation – and knowing that "pockets of joy" can be found in the creation process if we can just manage to center ourselves for the courageous discipline it takes to mine the veins of our imagination.
It's a Hard-Knock Life...
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