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Becoming a Writer: Identity, Voice, and Practice

by Tonia Lalousi

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You do not need permission to call yourself a writer. Becoming a Writer: Identity, Voice, and Practice is the first book in the How to Write a Book series, created for new, aspiring and experienced writers who want to build a writing life they can actually sustain. Rather than beginning with plot, character or structure, this book begins with the writer. It explores writer identity, motivation, finding your own voice, learning from your influences without imitating them, building a realistic writing practice and understanding what is really happening when doubt, perfectionism, resistance or inconsistency get in the way. The goal is not perfect discipline. It is to develop a reliable relationship with the page — and a way to return when life interrupts. Along the way, readers will find practical exercises, a 12-tool Writer’s Toolkit, a Seven-Day Writer Workshop, reusable worksheets and a Thirty-Day Writing Agreement. This book is especially suited to writers who have ever wondered whether they are “real” writers yet, struggled to trust their own voice, abandoned routines that did not fit their lives or needed a way back after time away from the page. Warm, practical and occasionally humorous, Becoming a Writer is a working manual for building a writing life that belongs to you.