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Dear Writer

Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

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Narrator Maggie Smith

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Length 6 hours 38 minutes
Language English
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New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.

Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place BeautifulGood BonesGoldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New YorkerThe Paris ReviewThe Nation, The New York TimesThe AtlanticThe Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place BeautifulGood BonesGoldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New YorkerThe Paris ReviewThe Nation, The New York TimesThe AtlanticThe Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

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Maggie Smith

ISBN:
9781797193335

Length:
6 hours 38 minutes

Language:
English

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Simon & Schuster Audio

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Unabridged

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"Poet Maggie Smith’s newest audiobook expands her purview to offer all kinds of artists helpful advice about what she sees as the 10 essential elements of creativity: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Her light, sweet-sounding voice often assumes a poet’s studied rhythmic cadence as she narrates with beautifully clear enunciation. The result is a listenable experience that, perhaps inadvertently, highlights her professional background. Yet the pace feels right for a book chock full of ideas. As befits the author of the poem “Good Bones,” which went viral in 2016, her advice is both kind and tough-minded. What’s most important, she emphasizes, is that “we have to love making things more than we love having made them.”' Expand reviews