The Creative Compass: Writing Your Way from Inspiration to Publication
“Thoughtful, thorough, and practical in its application, this is an important work on the creative process, and on the craft, business, and magic of writing.”— from the foreword byTerry Brooks, bestselling fantasy novelist“A good book about writing will guide you like a torch. You finish it and you’ve learned some useful lessons; you feel enlightened. But a great writing book is hard to finish because it keeps exploding in your face. All it makes you want to do is write. Everything else: blown away.The Creative Compassis like that, a box of inspiring dynamite. And of course that’s just what you want. Boom! Get back to your writing!”—Steven Goldsberry, creative writing professor and author ofThe Writer's Book of Wisdom“This is a wonderfully insightful guide to the art of transforming ideas and stories into books. It presents old narrative and stylistic truths in a new, highly imaginative way.”—Stephen Kinzer, author ofThe Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War