Becoming A Writer
Written by Dorothea Brande
Narrated by Robin Ward
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About this audiobook
For most of my adult life I have been engaged in the writing, the editing, or the criticizing of fiction.
I took, and I still take, the writing of fiction seriously.
So I make no apology for writing seriously about the problems of fiction writers. I have had firsthand experience with almost every current "approach" to the problems of writing.
The difficulties of the average student or amateur writer begin long before he has come to the place where he can benefit by technical instruction in story writing.
He had longed to hear that there was some magic about writing, and to be initiated into the brotherhood of authors.
This book, I believe, will be unique; for I think he is right. I think there is such a magic, and that it is teachable. This book is all about the writer's magic.
(From the Introduction.)
Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande (1893–1948) was an American writer and editor in New York City. She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago and the University of Michigan.Her book "Becoming a Writer", published in 1934, is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. She also wrote "Wake Up and Live!", published in 1936, which sold more than two million copies. It was made into the film Wake Up and Live in 1937.While she was serving as associate editor of The American Review in 1936, she married the journal's owner and editor, Seward Collins. Dorothea Brande Collins died in New Hampshire.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The advice itself was really interesting but the end of the book somehow ended up at the beginning of the audio, with the beginning to the middle at the end. As a result it threw me in the middle with no clue what was going on, and ended rather abruptly.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The advice is excellent (at least for the desperate absolute beginner), but the audio is mixed up. You start at the middle and then hear the beginning afterward. The sections can be read fairly interchangeable, but start with chapter 11 and then go to chapter 2.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic Book.
The part with the ideation was amazing.
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