A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
Elizabeth McCracken has spent decades writing novels and stories and teaching others to do the same. In this short book of craft notes, she pulls back the curtain on what the work actually looks like over a career. She writes about persistence, revision, characters who refuse to behave, and the everyday business of sitting down again the day after a bad day. Her tone is conversational rather than prescriptive. Rather than handing down rules, she offers observations from her own desk and from years in the classroom. The result is a quietly encouraging companion for fiction writers at any stage, especially those who have already absorbed the basic how-to advice and want to think about the long arc of a writing life.
What you might want to know about A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A working novelist's frank notes on the long, strange labor of making fiction.
Not exactly. It is a collection of craft observations and reflections rather than a structured guide with exercises.
Yes, though it will likely resonate even more once you have written and revised a few stories of your own.
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction was written by Elizabeth McCracken.
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