Write What You Want to Read

The problem was, to my great surprise, the book had sold based on those ninety pages and the editor was expecting, well, a novel. Prepared to return my advance I went to Spring Street Books in SoHo seeking solace and by chance bought a paperback copy of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Resta...

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Published inPoets & writers Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 79 - 80
Main Author Hood, Ann
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Poets & Writers, Incorporated 01.09.2024
Subjects
Novels
Short stories
Success
Tyler, Anne
Writers
Writing
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Summary:The problem was, to my great surprise, the book had sold based on those ninety pages and the editor was expecting, well, a novel. Prepared to return my advance I went to Spring Street Books in SoHo seeking solace and by chance bought a paperback copy of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. [...]I had this review of my fourth book, which confirmed what I sensed deep down all along: I didn't actually know how to write a novel. Instead I learned the hard way that there were books all around me, waiting to show me how to do it.
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ISSN:0891-6136