A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul - Hardcover

Maisel, Ph.D. Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577315464 ISBN 13: 9781577315469

Publisher: New World Library, 2006

Synopsis

Every writer needs a simpatico environment to be productive, and what better place than that mecca of creativity, San Francisco? The city by the bay has been home to generations of writers, from Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Armistead Maupin. In this lively book, Eric Maisel gives writers the guidance they need to take a literal or figurative soul-renewing sojourn to San Francisco. Maisel, one of America’s foremost creativity coaches, explores the how and why of making an artistic pilgrimage to the city, including the pesky problem of finding the perfect pied-a-terre for writing that elusive masterpiece. Thirty individual essays profile the best sections of the city for pumping up the juices ( The View from Bernal Hill,” South of Market”), noted literati of the past ( Mark Twain and the Onion”), how to find the perfect landlord, dealing with those inspiration-inhibiting earthquake fears, and much more.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Maisel has a wonderful voice and A Writer's San Francisco reads like a gritty, fluent love letter. He moves seamlessly between thoughtful descriptions of modern San Francisco and the San Francisco of the '60s and '70s in narratives that bring the city alive on the page. His affection and respect for the city are inspiring to all writers and artists, but also to anyone who has ever spent time in San Francisco and fallen in love with her."
-- Chris DeLorenzo, Laguna Writers Workshops

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1577315464
• ISBN 13: 9781577315469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Madonna Paul