An indispensible guide, filled with practical strategies, suggestions, and tips, helps the beginning writer to better understand the writing process by covering such topics as managing time, finding an idea, and submitting their work to agents and publishers. 10,000 first printing.
Jerry Cleaver is a writer, teacher, and writing coach who created The Writer's Loft, Chicago's most successful independent writers' workshop for the last twenty years. He has given special story seminars for Writers' Digest and created the "Write Your Novel Now" Internet course. Published in various magazines and a ghostwriter for several books, Cleaver lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife.