Page After Page

One of the best books for keeping your keys or your pen moving. Thoughtful, gentle and honest.

Writing is my trade. Words are the currancy and writing help books are market watchers. Page After Page discusses and promotes a whole writing lifestyle. Sellers writes about how she came to her writing by meeting the trade, page after page, each day. She gently nudges you to the page by telling you stories of her triumphs and failures to meet the page every day. Through her stories and almost memoir-like writing, the reader learns how meeting the blank page and writing can lead to a writer's life; that words, written and read, along with surrounding oneself with chearleaders and other writers, builds a blooming writing lifestyle that will last an entire life. Exercises help broaden the writing life and help you write every day, building one one another until you're able to get the building blocks to keep up with writing daily. This is a great book... Sellers doesn't sugar coat any aspect of a writer's life. She lays all her cards on the table, telling you what is good about writing and a writing life and warns you against the bads... and what happens to writers when they drop out or lose the passion. This is a true writing life– it's dirty, gritty and helps you cultivate something real... which is how to be a writer and sit your butt in the chair every day to write. This book fits into my summer goals by removing it from one of the three stacks I have laying around my writing desk. It's now going back home in my art/writing studio. (So I can use it to write daily.)