The Creative Compass: Writing Your Way from Inspiration to Publication - Softcover

Millman, Dan; Prasada, Sierra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932073655 ISBN 13: 9781932073652

Publisher: HJ Kramer, 2013

Synopsis

How can I become more disciplined? How do I know if I’m talented? Should I self-publish? These are just a few of the perennial and contemporary questions addressed in this delightfully different guide. The authors from different generations and writing genres first help the reader assess where they are on their path. They then walk aspiring writers through five universal stages Dream, Draft, Develop, Refine, and Share. While these stages apply to writers of every stripe, the emphasis is always on the reader navigating his or her own challenges, process, and goals. Insight-producing prompts and the wisdom of diverse artists (from Steinbeck and Thoreau to Spike Lee, Marilyn French, and Tom Clancy) help make every writer’s journey of creation as rewarding as its destination.

About this title

About the Author:

Dan Millman is the author of 17 books read by millions of people in 29 languages. He teaches worldwide and lives in Northern California. Sierra Prasada is a freelance journalist, editor, and teacher; the author of Creative Lives; and the founder of the 20th Century Project. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Review:

Thoughtful, thorough, and practical in its application, this is an important work on the creative process, and on the craft, business, and magic of writing.”
from the foreword by Terry Brooks, bestselling fantasy novelist

A good book about writing will guide you like a torch. You finish it and you’ve learned some useful lessons; you feel enlightened. But a great writing book is hard to finish because it keeps exploding in your face. All it makes you want to do is write. Everything else: blown away. The Creative Compass is like that, a box of inspiring dynamite. And of course that’s just what you want. Boom! Get back to your writing!”
Steven Goldsberry, creative writing professor and author of The Writer's Book of Wisdom

This is a wonderfully insightful guide to the art of transforming ideas and stories into books. It presents old narrative and stylistic truths in a new, highly imaginative way.”
Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

About this edition

• Publisher: HJ Kramer
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1932073655
• ISBN 13: 9781932073652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280