It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer: And Hundreds of Other Facts from the World of Writing - Brossura

Barrett, Erin; Mingo, Jack

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ISBN 10: 1573247227 ISBN 13: 9781573247221

Casa editrice: Conari Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows includingWho Wants to be a Millionaire? and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they've written twenty books. The sixth book in the Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining (TRUE) Trivia Series puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers. It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer will tell you everything you could possibly want, or were afraid, to know about writers, publishing, and the writing life. Bite-sized facts are organized into chapters including "Everyone's a Critic", "Stranger than Fiction", "From Bad to Verse," "Kiddie Lit", "A Word's Worth," and many more. You'll learn things like: where Proust wrote (in bed with gloves on); what Voltaire drank (70 cups of coffee a day); and how James Cain prepared himself for yet another publisher's rejection. (The title The Postman Always Rings Twice had nothing to do with the plot of the best-selling novel. It was a private joke of author James Cain. His postman would ring his doorbell twice whenever the many-times-rejected manuscript came back from a publisher.)

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Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows, including Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they've written twenty books. It Takes a Certain Type to be a Writer puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers, publishing, and the writing life.

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• Editore: Conari Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1573247227
• ISBN 13: 9781573247221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 193