This Creative Life, Sara Zarr
This Creative Life, Sara Zarr
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This Creative Life
A Handbook for Writers

Author: Sara Zarr

Narrator: Sara Zarr

Unabridged: 3 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2022


Synopsis

There are a lot of books about writing out there. If you’re like most writers, you’ve just about read them all. But learning how to write (and organize and outline and plot and edit and save the cat and market a breakout book) is one thing. Making and living a sustainable creative life in the face of...everything...is an entirely different matter. To know how to do that, we need to take a look at what goes on between the lines of our lives as writers so that we can live them with maybe a little more thought and intention--no matter the many interior and exterior obstacles that can threaten to derail our purpose.In this companion book to her long-running podcast, Sara Zarr brings her sixteen-year publishing career and experience as a speaker, teacher, and mentor to a conversational and encouraging collection of hard-won insights about what it means not to just write (and perchance to publish), but to be a writer.

About Sara Zarr

Sara Zarr is the author of six acclaimed novels for young adults, including Story of a Girl, The Lucy Variations, and Gem & Dixie. She's a National Book Award finalist and two-time Utah Book Award winner. Her novels have been variously named to annual best books lists of the American Library Association, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, the Guardian, the New York Public Library, and the Los Angeles Public Library and have been translated into many languages. She splits her time between Utah and California. You can visit her online at www.sarazarr.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara

I wrote it, but also I recently "read" it again while editing the audiobook and man, I needed these reminders from myself about why I write and how to engage thoughtfully with my writing life. I'm just saying!......more

Goodreads review by Ann

Writing and publishing books is one of the hardest things to accomplish and there is no shortage of books telling you how to succeed, but good ones are rare. As a fan of Sara Zarr's novels and podcasts, and as someone often in need of support and advice from other writers, I read this book with hope......more

Goodreads review by Jerry

Every writer is a voracious reader, but not every voracious reader is a writer or even dreams of becoming a writer. I became a card-carrying, certified bookworm over seventy years ago when I received a complete set of Zane Grey western novels as a Christmas present. By the time I graduated from high......more

Goodreads review by Donna

I found this book so useful and honest that I bought copies for seven of my writing buddies. It's different from most books on the subject and has a more global perspective of living a creative life and shares the realities of the writing life from someone who has been doing this for quite some time......more