Writing from Personal Experience: How to Turn Your Life into Salable Prose

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Summary: Very Inspiring!
Review: As a free-lance writer wanna-be, I found this book to be inspiring, insightful, and very entertaining. Nancy (I feel like I've known her for years) shares what she's learned and taught as a writer/instructor and gives you really useful tips, suggestions, guidelines and yes, warnings about getting started writing for yourself. She speaks of the importance of writing from the inside out and showing your authentic self. Her humor, wit and candor show up on every page, and make this book as entertaining as it is instructional. This is NOT a book to guide you through the business of writing...it is a book to inspire you, to challenge you, to help you find the courage to let your insides hang out, put them on a page, and learn to revise, revise, revise. At the end of each chapter, Nancy provides you with exercises to practice what she's preached. The exercises really work, enabling you to actually see your work evolve as you move through the book! I gained so many new insights as I began reading, that I read through the entire book for its inspring messages, and then sat down and read through each chapter again. I recommend this book to any aspiring writer, as well as to those who wish their muse would kick in more often! This book is a true gem!

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Summary: What a wonderful, inspiring book!
Review: I can't wait to get started on the exercises! Ms Kelton does a wonderful job a validating the reader's desire to write and encouraging writing for the sake of writing. I checked this book out from the library but am now ordering a copy to keep and loaning my library copy to my partner. I just regret that I can't take Ms Kelton's class.

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Summary: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Review: The next best thing to taking Nancy Kelton's class (which I've done twice) is buying this book. It is for anyone who wants to grow as a writer and is willing to practice, practice, practice. It is all in the rewriting and the details says Ms. Kelton and she is right.