{"product_id":"starting-from-scratch-9780553346305","title":"Starting from Scratch","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRubyfruit Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBingo\u003c\/i\u003e, here is a writers' manual as provocative, frank, and funny as her fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike most  writers' guides, this one had as much to do with how writers live as with mastering the tools of their trade. Rita Mae Brown begins with a very personal account of her own career, from her days as a young  poet who had written a novel no publisher wanted  to take a chance on, right up to her recent  adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter. In a sassy style that makes her outspoken advice as entertaining as it is useful, she provides straight talk about paying the rent while maintaining the energy to  write; and dealing with agents, publishers, critics, and the publicity circus; about pursuing journalisim, academia, or screen-writing; and about rejecting the Hemingway myth of the hard-living, hard-drinking genius. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition Brown, a former teacher or writing, offers a serious examination of the  writer's tool—language, plotting, characters, symbolism—plus exercises to sharpen the ear for dialogue, and a fascinating, annoted reading list of important works from the seventh century to the late twentieth.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62242153988483,"sku":"9780553346305","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780553346305.jpg?v=1785395510","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/starting-from-scratch-9780553346305","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}