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Hopelessly Clueless: My Strategy for Success as a Writer

Video lecture | 60 minutes

Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author

Description

Christopher Moore is the author of eleven novels, including the international bestsellers, Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. His latest novel, Fool, a retelling of King Lear from the perspective of Pocket, the Fool. In this lecture, he talks about what he has done to help or hinder his career. Real insights from a real pro.

Here, you'll learn:

• The best thing going for you is to know your audience
• When you write, write. When you revise, revise
• The truth about writers block
• To deal with the battle between ego and humility
• That it's okay to write crap
• To give up the goal of getting there, just write
• That even John Steinbeck had no idea what he was doing. It's part of the process
• Not to write something to death
• To seprate reward from the work
• Not to expect help from your family and friends
• To keep being a writer

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