Shut Up Write!

Shut Up & Write! is the winner of four national awards and the indispensable companion of many successful writers. Written for fiction and non-fiction writers at all levels, it demystifies the process of writing with easy-to-access tools, instruction, examples, and inspiration. It includes tips on writing fact and fiction; making characters come alive; selecting a point of view; the "get and give" of critiques; how to keep going when the going gets tough, and how to get happily published. Encouraging, humorous, straight-talking, Shut Up & Write! is filled with such practical information about the craft of writing and advice about the care and feeding of the Inner Writer that it's destined to become every writer's best friend.