Full name: Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True

Author: Elizabeth Berg Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062200440 0062200445

Elizabeth Berg touches women's lives with heartbreakingly funny and true novels -- including the New York Times bestseller Talk Before Sleep -- that distinctly capture the essence of their lives. Now this critically acclaimed author and writing instructor offers an inspiring, practical handbook on the joys, challenges, and creative possibilities inherent in the writing life. Both autobiography and primer, Escaping into the Open interweaves Elizabeth Berg's story of her own journey from working mother to published novelist with encouraging advice on how to create stories that spring from deep within the heart. With wit and honesty, Elizabeth Berg provides numerous exercises that will unleash individual creativity and access and utilize all of the senses. Most important, she tells how to fire passion -- emotion -- into writing itself; to break through personal barriers and reach one's own outer limits and beyond. Similar books: Master Class in Fiction Writing by Adam Sexton Writing the Novel by Lawrence Block Manuscript Makeover by Elizabeth Lyon Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight Bullies, Bastards And Bitches by Jessica Morrell Between the Lines by Jessica Morrell Creating Characters by Dwight V. Swain Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See The Lie That Tells a Truth by John Dufresne The Career Novelist by Donald Maass Conflict, Action and Suspense by William Noble The Sound on the Page by Ben Yagoda Theme & Strategy by Ronald B. Tobias Make a Scene by Jordan E. Rosenfeld Walking on Alligators by Susan Shaughnessy Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain Story Engineering by Larry Brooks