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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (10th Anniversary Edition)

by Dani Shapiro

A craft guide shaped by the realities of sustaining a writing life

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A craft guide shaped by the realities of sustaining a writing life

Dani Shapiro brings together reflections from her work as a writer and teacher in a hybrid of memoir, creative-process meditation, and practical craft advice. The book addresses storytelling alongside the wider conditions of creative practice: the pleasures, difficulties, and ongoing discipline of continuing to write. Framed as an “almanac” for contemporary writers, it draws on two decades of teaching and writing to offer personal insights as well as usable lessons. This tenth-anniversary edition presents writing not as a single achievement but as a continuing artistic life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Beginning writers seeking craft-oriented guidance
  • Experienced writers interested in reflections on maintaining a creative practice
  • Artists interested in memoir-inflected discussions of the creative process

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Writing craftStorytellingCreative practiceArtistic disciplineMemoir and teaching

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Book overview

"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, bestselling 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 in these pages. Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing, Shapiro shares her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers.

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