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Still Writing

The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Dani Shapiro author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:20th Mar '25

£10.99

This title is due to be published on 20th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between’ Jennifer Egan

From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate companion to living a creative life. Writers - and anyone with an artistic temperament - will find inspiration and comfort in these pages. Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing, Shapiro shares her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers.

Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between -- Jennifer Egan
A practical, wise, and inviting guide to [Shapiro’s] 20-year journey as an author and teacher * Elle *
Writers need hope. Writers need help. Thank you, Dani Shapiro -- Michael Cunningham
Dani Shapiro has written a wise, pragmatic, and soulful field guide to the writing life. Still Writing is filled with honest words to not only live by but write toward. Shapiro has created a well-drawn map for the lost, the weary, and the found. I loved it -- Terry Tempest Williams
Honest and conversational, Shapiro provides an introspective look into the creative process and the value of persistence, offering insight to writers at any level * Booklist *

ISBN: 9781529909975

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 200g

256 pages