The Writer's Hustle: A Professional Guide to the Creativity, Discipline, Humility, and Grit Every Writer Needs to Flourish

Description

The Writer's Hustle is a comprehensive guide to all the things successful writers do when they're not sitting at the keyboard. Drawing on wisdom from dozens of experienced authors, professors, students, and other writing professionals, this book offers pragmatic and systematic advice on the everyday professional practices that make up a writer's life. In ten chapters, Franklin covers the full arc of a writer's professional development, from setting goals and establishing a routine, to mastering writing groups and workshops, earning a mentor, and becoming a literary citizen. He explores strategies for attending conferences, finishing projects, submitting work, and maintaining a life-long writing habit, and he examines the potential benefits of a formal creative writing education, including a close look at how creative writing students can leverage their liberal arts training into a wide range of careers. Informative and personal, The Writer's Hustle is an ideal companion for university students, recent graduates, and independent enthusiasts-anyone looking to cultivate the creativity, discipline, humility, and grit that every writer needs to flourish.

Joey Franklin has taught creative writing and literature in Ohio, Texas, and Utah and is the author of two essay collections, Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (2020), and My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married (2015). His essays have appeared in such magazines as Gettysburg Review, Hunger Mountain, Ninth Letter, and Brevity, and he has published articles on craft, theory, and professionalization in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Assay, and Triquarterly. He is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, and he coedits the literary journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.

The Writer's Hustle delivers a frank, entertaining and practical exploration into how to sustain the writer's life. Never claiming to provide THE answers, Joey Franklin examines the diverse approaches and practices necessary to staying in the game. * Beth Cooley, Gonzaga University, Spokane Washington, USA *