HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing - Ed. Aaron Burch
A fun and thoughtful collection of previously unpublished essays about skateboarding, riding horses, gardening, delivering mail, shooting baskets, cooking, record collecting, knitting, stitching, running, and many more things that aren’t writing, except that, put in the context of this collection, maybe they are?
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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On Finding Your Voice
Scott Mitchel May - “Take it Steezy”
Donald Ryan - “Recipe for an Authentic, From Scratch Shepherd’s Pie (When I Don’t Have Lamb in the Fridge)”
e rathke - “Fermenting Hot Sauce”
James Brubaker - “About that Time I Sold My Copies of the First Three American Analog Set Records When I Really, Truly Shouldn’t Have, and Have Regretted it Ever Since”
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On Training Your Instincts
Siân Griffiths - “Dressage”
Kirsten Reneau - “On The Ancient Art of Driving on A Mountain Road”
Shane Kowalski - “How To Deliver Other People's Mail”
Ruth Joffre - “Adventures in Bird (Mis)Identification”
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On Trusting the Process
Abby Harding - “A Garden is a Love Song”
Ashleigh Catibog Abraham - “Heart, Soul & Drops of Blood”
Katharine Coldiron - “Thousands of Half-Stitches”
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On Noticing
Hattie Jean Hayes - “Silent Treatment”
Emma Sloley - “Notice Me”
Kevin Maloney - “Alleyman”
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On Perseverance
Mitchell Nobis - “Buckets”
Abigail Oswald - “See Tom Run”
Amie Souza Reilly - “On Laundry”
Katie Darby Mullins - “Not to Mention the Parking”
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On Living a Writing Life
Ellen Rhudy - “Knit, Purl”
Tasha Coryell - “The Slog Itself”
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Aaron Burch grew up in Tacoma, WA. He is the author of a novel, Year of the Buffalo; a memoir/literary analysis, Stephen King’s The Body; a short story collection, Backswing; and a novella, How to Predict the Weather. He started the literary journal Hobart, which he edited for twenty years, and is currently the co-editor of WAS (Words & Sports) and HAD (and possibly a new thing to be announced soon?). He currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI and is online: on Twitter and Instagram at @aaron__burch, and the world wide web at aaronburch.net.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: August 1 2023
Print Length: 168 pgs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5”
ISBN: 978-1-957392-25-7