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    My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer
    My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer
    My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer
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    My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer

    By Joseph Sutton

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    A powerful book about writing and the writing process, this book will motivate both beginning and professional writers to sit down and write as swiftly as they can to generate ideas or to break out of a writer's block. Writing will become a joyful act instead of a chore. All aspects of writing are covered, from setting deadlines, overcoming rejection, revising, getting feedback, persevering against all odds, contending with interruptions, and much, much more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Sutton
    Release dateApr 17, 2011
    ISBN9781458162106
    My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer
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    Joseph Sutton

    Joseph Sutton was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hollywood. He played football at the University of Oregon and graduated with a degree in philosophy. He earned a teaching credential and a degree in history at Cal State University Los Angeles and taught high school history and English for many years. Sutton, who has been writing for more than 50 years, has published over two dozen books. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous national magazines and journals. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Joan.

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      My Writing Year - Joseph Sutton

      MY WRITING YEAR

      Making Sense of Being a Writer

      by

      Joseph Sutton

      Copyright by Joseph Sutton

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Week 1 - Start Anywhere

      Week 2 - Send Me a Hundred Pages

      Week 3 - Writing vs. Experiencing Life

      Week 4 - This Writer's Mantra

      Week 5 - Sit Your Ass Down

      Week 6 - Just Write, Don't Stop

      Week 7 - A Question to Answer

      Week 8 - Why I Write

      Week 9 - When Ideas Come a-Knockin'

      Week 10 - Fame

      Week 11 - Writing in My Car

      Week 12 - Slow, Man, Slow is What I Am

      Week 13 - Confidence and the Writing Process

      Week 14 - Writing and Walking Go Together

      Week 15 - The Right Time to Write

      Week 16 - Interruptions

      Week 17 - Deadlines are Lifelines

      Week 18 - Writing as Therapy

      Week 19 - Writing and the Subconscious

      Week 20 - Writing Quotations

      Week 21 - A Beginning Writer's Voice Emerges

      Week 22 - This Writer Learns from His Wife

      Week 23 - A Story from Out of the Blue

      Week 24 - Overcoming Writer's Block

      Week 25 - I Consider Myself the Luckiest Writer on the Face of the Earth

      Week 26 - A Typical Day in This Writer's Life

      Week 27 - Thoughts on the Writing Process

      Week 28 - The Secret to Writing

      Week 29 - The Pen vs. The Computer

      Week 30 - All Writing is Connected to Writing

      Week 31 - Writing Advice for Non-Writers

      Week 32 - Writing and Sickness

      Week 33 - A Ramble into the Crevices of My Mind

      Week 34 - One Way to Get a Writing Project Started

      Week 35 - Don't Think, Keep on Writing

      Week 36 - The Complete Story

      Week 37 - Revision

      Week 38 - Write Swiftly, Fast, Rapidly, Quickly

      Week 39 - Rejections

      Week 40 - How to Write and Love Doing It

      Week 41 - My Reason for Self-Publishing

      Week 42 - Two Interviews

      Week 43 - Stick to Writing

      Week 44 - Feedback

      Week 45 - The Limitless Future for Writers

      Week 46 - Advertisements for Myself

      Week 47 - Proofreading

      Week 48 - This Writer's Resolutions

      Week 49 - I've Got Rhythm

      Week 50 - Important Writing Quotes

      Week 51 - Why I Write II

      Week 52 - Signing Off

      About the Author

      Other Titles by Joseph Sutton

      Connect with Joseph Sutton

      Introduction

      Think of it, Joseph Sutton has penned this powerful little book to try to make sense out of why anyone would want to be a writer. There are 52 entries, one for each week in the year, that deal with everything from Why I Write to Writing as Therapy to Overcoming Writer’s Block to Rejection and how to manage it.

      Other entries include:

      Writing and the Subconscious

      When Ideas Come a-Knockin’

      How to Write and Love Doing It

      Deadlines are Lifelines

      The Secret to Writing

      There are many more entries to help the beginner and the professional stay focused and do the job of writing, day after day. Sutton’s favorite author, William Saroyan, said this is what a writer must do: If you practice your art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up. There is even a magic elixir formula to give you strength as you work your way toward your finished writing product.

      Each page in this little jewel will help push you toward your writing goal of honing in on your own voice and getting yourself published. Sutton offers us his secrets to good writing and to making sense out of a profession with many personal pleasures but with little remuneration.

      My Writing Year will set you free, free to write wherever your thoughts take you and to overcome most of the obstacles that might otherwise stop you in your tracks at first attempt.

      —Donald S. Ellis, Publisher

      Week 1 - Start Anywhere

      For the past few months I’ve been experiencing a dry spell in my writing because I’ve been busy promoting my latest book Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book. I’ve also been sending out query letters by snail mail and e-mail to a host of agents trying to convince them to read two unpublished novels of mine. Add to that, I’ve been watching the most exciting basketball team I’ve ever seen—the Golden State Warriors. Instead of sitting at

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