It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer

Jack Mingo, Erin Barrett

Description

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. 

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.)

Sujets

• Shakespeare
• Writting
• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• James Cain
• William Shakespeare
• James M. Cain

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 août 2003
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781609250737
• Langue: English

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