Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment
Seven Steps on the Novelist’s Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment Books
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The blank page, the impossible deadline, the exhilarating rush of inspiration, the perils of publication: There is no profession more maddening or more rewarding than being a novelist. Yet surprisingly, all writers, no matter how well-known or successful, pass through the same sequence of stages in the course of their careers. It was this remarkable insight that inspired veteran writers Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott to pool their talents and write a book. The result is one of the wisest and liveliest guides to the literary life ever written—a volume of surprising revelation, warm reassurance, brilliant encouragement, and welcome humor.
Drawing on their own experience as writers of fiction and nonfiction as well as the insights of scores of colleagues, Pickard and Lott follow the trajectory of the novelist’s life from the first time that inner voice whispers “I want to write” to the burst of accomplishment that comes when the book is finished, the thought expressed, the dream made real. No matter what you write or how much recognition you’ve received, if you’re serious about writing as a profession, you are bound to pass through the seven steps on the novelist’s path. Pickard and Lott call these steps Unhappiness, Wanting, Commitment, Wavering, Letting Go, Immersion, and Fulfillment.
Are you sunk in a pit of being alone and confusion, weighed down by pressures you can neither name nor escape? Welcome to the stage of Unhappiness, what Pickard and Lott call the “precreative state.” Don’t worry, Tolstoy and Stephen King have been there before you, and in some way they cleared the abyss of Wanting (desires you can’t shake, jealousies that sting like bees) and climbed the ladder of Commitment.
Wavering is where you hit the wall, tread water, and succumb to the dread paralysis of novelist’s block and the abuse of unsympathetic editors and critics. E. B. White said a novelist is like a surfer coming up for the perfect wave—and in the stage of Letting Go, that wave finally crests, releasing the torrent of creativity that carries you through the deeply nourishing stages of Immersion and Fulfillment.
Pickard and Lott are the buddies every novelist dreams of—everlastingly there to light the way and lighten your mood, generous with advice and sympathy, and bold enough to give you the occasional kick in the pants. Whether you’re a “wannabe” novelist or a published literary veteran, you’re bound to find this book a source of right delight, vital wisdom, and lasting inspiration.
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