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How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead
Ariel Gore

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Debra Zyla, November 12, 2007

If you've been waiting for someone to hold your hand through the publishing process and answer with candor every nagging and seemingly silly question about what it is to be a published writer (I don't need an M.F.A.?!), here you go. Ariel Gore introduces each section and chapter with pithy quotes from the dead and the living and includes Q & A sessions with writers and comics and other self-promoting geniuses throughout. (Magnificent Meteor's advice and sage wisdom is undoubtedly the most comforting.)

After just a third of the way through my reading, filled with a sense of urgency, renewed vision, and gratitude, I composed the Acknowledgments page of whatever it is I'm currently working on. In it I have included this hip mother of a writer with the few other women I consider my literary girlfriends, those goddesses who offer empathy and humor and a reassuring touch before stepping back and giving me that blessed sweet kick in the ass all writers need from time to time.

This is your wake-up call from Ariel Gore.

I'm Debra Zyla and I am a writer.

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