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Chapter After Chapter: Discover the Dedication and Focus You Need to Write the Book of Your Dreams (2007)

by Heather Sellers

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Writing a book requires a focus, a sense of knowing and trusting in yourself and your work. And it requires an unflinching commitment to staying the course. Chapter After Chapter shows you how to build on your good writing habits, accrue and recognize tiny successes, and turn your dedication to the craft into the book you always knew you could write if you could just stay with it. Heather Sellers, author of Page After Page, draws on her first-hand experience as a novelist, poet, memoirist, and children's book author to help you prepare for whatever roadblocks you might encounter while writing the book of your dreams. You'll discover how to celebrate the momentum of slow and steady, stay in love with your book project through soggy middles and long revisions, and embrace the nakedness that is creative expression. And you'll realize you've got exactly what it takes write your book!… (more)
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A different kind of writing book than the ones I'm used to... The author recommends slowing down, enjoying the writing process, writing for the love of it and not worrying about publication. I take pride in being productive, writing fast and writing well, so many of her recommendations didn't resonate with me. And yet, others did. Suggestions about how to stay in love with your book and how to fight the dreaded book "Creep" apply to all of us. (A-) ( )
  Elizabeth_Cooper | Oct 27, 2023 |
I recommend this book for anyone who wants to write, whatever style or preferred method. It has solid advice on how to keep writing, not how to write. A must read for anyone interested in becoming an author. ( )
  KasiatheBoo | Jul 8, 2021 |
This book didn't work for me. I think that for the people who it does work for, it will be a great resource. However, something about the writing style rubbed me the wrong way, and I couldn't take the advice seriously. It has a good message at its heart, I think, but too often it was obscured by things that got in the way of the message. ( )
  ca.bookwyrm | May 18, 2020 |
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For my brilliant editor, Kelly Nickell, co-author, teacher, and dear friend, most patient, wise, instructive, kind. So much of this book is yours, all the way through, including the original idea. I am so grateful to you for every single page of this project.
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Learning to write books is just as hard as learning to write, period.
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Writing a book requires a focus, a sense of knowing and trusting in yourself and your work. And it requires an unflinching commitment to staying the course. Chapter After Chapter shows you how to build on your good writing habits, accrue and recognize tiny successes, and turn your dedication to the craft into the book you always knew you could write if you could just stay with it. Heather Sellers, author of Page After Page, draws on her first-hand experience as a novelist, poet, memoirist, and children's book author to help you prepare for whatever roadblocks you might encounter while writing the book of your dreams. You'll discover how to celebrate the momentum of slow and steady, stay in love with your book project through soggy middles and long revisions, and embrace the nakedness that is creative expression. And you'll realize you've got exactly what it takes write your book!

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