Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True

By Elizabeth Berg

“Crystal transparent, bracing as ice water, Escaping Into the Open could be learn via all scribblers despite fabric success.”
—Rita Mae Brown

“This is a very strong book.”
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Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg understands a specific thing or approximately writing, having graced the realm with very good works of fiction together with Talk sooner than Sleep, The yr of Pleasures, and the acclaimed Oprah publication membership choice, Open House. With Escaping Into the Open, she deals an inspiring, eminently pleasing, and delightfully sensible guide at the joys, demanding situations, and inventive probabilities inherent within the writing lifestyles. Now revised with new material—a vintage within the vein of Writing Down the Bones by means of Natalie Goldberg and Anne Lamott’s Bird by way of Bird—Elizabeth Berg’s Escaping Into the Open is an quintessential consultant for any aspiring storyteller.

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