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Blood on the Forehead: What I Know about Writing

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By M. E. Kerr
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers - (Harper Trophy)
Blood on the Forehead: What I Know about Writing
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Awardwinning novelist M. E. Kerr shares for the first time the stories behindand excerpt fromfive of her novels and five short stories and offers young people dozens of sensible writing tips that can be used immediately by any aspiring writer of fiction. A professional writer who has earned her living solely as an author from the year after she graduated college to the present, Ms. Kerrwith her usual mix of sparkling with and common sensetalks about how she gets her ideas and, more important, how she uses them to create her stories. Whether you are writing your next school assignment or thinking about writing as career, Blood on the Forehead gives you a fascinating insight into the way one highly successful author approaches her own work.For decades, Marijane Meaker has delighted readers of all ages. Shes written under the names Vin Packer, M. J. Meaker, and Mary James. But as M. E. Kerr, writer of books for young adults, she has won perhaps her greatest audience.In Blood on theForehead M. E. Kerr shares both the stories behind and excerpts from five of her novels and five short stories for young adults, as well as tips about what writers need to remember in order to write fiction successfully (e.g., Courtesy #10 to extend to your reader Cut! Cut! Cut! Your reader has a life.). With her usual mix of sparkling wit and common sense, Kerrs personal journey through the writing process is sure to buoy the spirits of any reader faced with the next wr

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9780064462075

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