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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction

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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth McCrackenPublish date:12/2/2025Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780063375291ISBN-10:006337529XUPC:9780063375291Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Self-Help, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Writing, Creativity, MemoirsBook Topic:Fiction WritingSize:7.80 x 5.34 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCF2N337J9

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.

Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come up with their own. Elizabeth McCracken, author of bestselling novels, National Book Award long-listed story collections, and a highly praised memoir, has been teaching for more than thirty-five years, guiding her many students through their own answers. In A Long Game, she shares insights gleaned along the way, offering practical tips and incisive thoughts about her own work as an artist. Writing "is a long game," she notes. "What matters is that you learn to get work done in the way that is possible for you, through consistency or panic. Through self-recrimination or self-delusion or self-forgiveness: every life needs all three."

As much a book about the life of a working artist as it is a guide to thinking about fiction, A Long Game is a revelatory and indispensable resource for any writer.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780063375291ISBN-10:006337529XUPC:9780063375291Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Self-Help, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Writing, Creativity, MemoirsBook Topic:Fiction WritingSize:7.80 x 5.34 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCF2N337J9
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Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including The Hero of This Book, The Souvenir Museum (long-listed for the National Book Award), Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant's House (a National Book Award finalist). Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories five times, and have won three Pushcart Prizes, two National Magazine Awards, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

Publisher: Ecco Press

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