{"product_id":"9780802193438","title":"Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life","description":"\u003ci\u003e“Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eDevotion\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Slow Motion\u003c\/i\u003e comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, \u003ci\u003eStill Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and eloquent companion to living a creative life.     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a blend of deeply personal stories about what formed her as a writer, tales from other authors, and a searching look at her own creative process, Shapiro offers her gift to writers everywhere: an elegant guide of hard-won wisdom and advice for staying the course. “The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.” Writers—and anyone with an artistic temperament—will find inspiration and comfort in these pages. Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing, Shapiro brings her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Anne Lamott’s \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, Virginia Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eA Writer’s Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, and Stephen King’s\u003ci\u003e On Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, Dani Shapiro’s\u003ci\u003e Still Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is a lodestar for aspiring scribes and an eloquent memoir of the writing life.","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068666003696,"sku":"9780802193438","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802193438_p0.jpg?v=1763725472","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802193438","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}