Wayward Writer, The: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar
When your dream and creative passion is to write, how do you succeed without selling out or selling yourself short? Ariel Gore has spent her life trying to solve this puzzle, writing and organizing her way towards a creative utopian vision, where storytelling is a form of resistance and writing is an outsider art. In this follow-up to her national bestseller How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead, Gore offers a lyrical call to literary revolution paired with practical exercises. Through her own experiences and interviews with other authors, publishers, and agents, she shows you how to chart your own creative education, vanquish shame and imposter syndrome, cast off oppression, cast a spell on your readers, step into your unique powers, and build your own literary community where respect and honesty reign and where you can be a writer and survive. Gore presents an alternative narrative structure to the patriarchal hero's journey, with a focus on tapping into myths and hidden places. She urges us to not be precious about where or when we write, or to apologize for who and what we are, or to stop short of telling the truth about our lives. The result is an impossible to ignore rallying cry for writing dangerously to create a liberatory literary utopia and a helpful guide through the thorny landscape of publishing your work.
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Wayward Writer, The: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar
When your dream and creative passion is to write, how do you succeed without selling out or selling yourself short? Ariel Gore has spent her life trying to solve this puzzle, writing and organizing her way towards a creative utopian vision, where storytelling is a form of resistance and writing is an outsider art. In this follow-up to her national bestseller How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead, Gore offers a lyrical call to literary revolution paired with practical exercises. Through her own experiences and interviews with other authors, publishers, and agents, she shows you how to chart your own creative education, vanquish shame and imposter syndrome, cast off oppression, cast a spell on your readers, step into your unique powers, and build your own literary community where respect and honesty reign and where you can be a writer and survive. Gore presents an alternative narrative structure to the patriarchal hero's journey, with a focus on tapping into myths and hidden places. She urges us to not be precious about where or when we write, or to apologize for who and what we are, or to stop short of telling the truth about our lives. The result is an impossible to ignore rallying cry for writing dangerously to create a liberatory literary utopia and a helpful guide through the thorny landscape of publishing your work.
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Wayward Writer, The: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar

Wayward Writer, The: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar

by Ariel Gore
Wayward Writer, The: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar

Wayward Writer, The: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar

by Ariel Gore

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When your dream and creative passion is to write, how do you succeed without selling out or selling yourself short? Ariel Gore has spent her life trying to solve this puzzle, writing and organizing her way towards a creative utopian vision, where storytelling is a form of resistance and writing is an outsider art. In this follow-up to her national bestseller How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead, Gore offers a lyrical call to literary revolution paired with practical exercises. Through her own experiences and interviews with other authors, publishers, and agents, she shows you how to chart your own creative education, vanquish shame and imposter syndrome, cast off oppression, cast a spell on your readers, step into your unique powers, and build your own literary community where respect and honesty reign and where you can be a writer and survive. Gore presents an alternative narrative structure to the patriarchal hero's journey, with a focus on tapping into myths and hidden places. She urges us to not be precious about where or when we write, or to apologize for who and what we are, or to stop short of telling the truth about our lives. The result is an impossible to ignore rallying cry for writing dangerously to create a liberatory literary utopia and a helpful guide through the thorny landscape of publishing your work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781648411090
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing LLC
Publication date: 10/11/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the author of 10 books, including F*ck Happiness, and the creator of the zine Hip Mama, a winner of the American Alternative Press award. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won the LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010 and her own writing has been called eloquent, sensitive, and revolutionary. She also keeps a website, www.arielgore.com and teaches online workshops at Ariel Gore's School for Wayward Writers. She lives and works in Portland, OR, and Santa Fe, NM.

Table of Contents

How to Use this Book as a School 8

Introduction: Desire & Resistance 9

Part 1 Doors 11

Outsiders Welcome 12

Welcome Packet 16

Gather Sparkly Supplies 20

Dear Ariel (Packing up in Podunk) 22

Don't Worry about a Fancy Writing Space 23

Invoke Psychic Protection 25

If Your Want to Be Like Audre Lorde (interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs) 27

Be a Part of What Happens Next 32

Support Reverse Centrification (Interview with Johnny Temple) 34

Steal This Door 37

Transform Chaos Into Something You Can Hold 43

Visit the Stranger's Plot 46

Dear Ariel (Mama in Maine) 51

Parents, Caregivers, and Other Workers Unite! 52

Relieve Your Babysitter 57

Talking Trash about the Living and the Dead 59

Dear Ariel (Earnest in El Paso) 65

You Don't Have to be Good (But You Can't Be Half-Assed) 66

Start Short 68

Part 2 Other Building Materials, Mostly Salvaged 71

Let us Leave "Pre-Door Tragedy" behind 72

Remember Your Strength 75

Portal Through Time 78

Bring Honor Where There Has Been Shame 81

Stand Up for Who & What You Love 84

Meet Your Real Mother 86

I (Heart) Apples-Oranges 88

One Has to Apply (Interview with Darryl Lorenzo Wellington) 97

Transgress Genre 102

Take the Noir Descent 104

Make Room for Your Character's Own Shady Agenda 106

Write from the Body 108

Accept Dented Characters 110

Put Your Enemies in Hell 113

What? Our Lives Have Themes? (Interview with Reyna Grande) 115

Hand-Piece Your Memoir 121

Build Altars and Scaffolding 123

Dear Ariel (Conflicted in Cleveland) 126

Part 3 Structure and Gardens 127

Cast the Hero as a Pregnant Single Mom 128

Ask How Things Can Get Worse 135

Believe in the Fairy-Tale Ending (Interview with Michele Ruiz Keil) 139

Go See Baba Yoga 145

Design Magic Gardens 149

Charge an Object with Narrative Magic 152

Unload Kingston's Gun 154

Dear Ariel (Plotless in Pittsburgh) 157

Cave Theory 158

Gore's Grotto 160

Try the Dramatic Spinning Green Chile Apple Pie Plot Theory 173

Ask the Tarot for an Insta-Plot 177

Create a Unified Experience 179

Make it Look Intentional 182

Part 4 Remodeling 185

Do Your Project Math 186

Set the Work Aside 189

Dear Ariel (Overwhelmed in Oklahoma) 190

The Sonic Edit 191

Set Up an Editing Parcourse 193

Get Outside Input 196

The Only Difference Between Me & Alice Munro 201

Dear Ariel (Graceless in Grand Rapids) 202

A Door Can Be a Table 203

Show and Tell 205

Borrowing and Stealing 208

Part 5 Solitude and Scene, Home and Away 211

Bold as You Can Stand 212

Create the Community You Wish to Be Port Of 215

Draft an Artist Statement 218

Metamorphosize Into a Fire-Breathing Dragon and Apply for All the Residencies 220

Plan a DIY Writing Retreat 226

Dear Ariel (People Pleaser in Poughkeepsie) 227

Invent Your Own Promotion Formula 228

Go to a Writing Conference 231

Have a Clear-Headed Understanding of Your Audience (Interview with Jisu Kim) 239

Dear Ariel (Doubting in Decatur) 241

Are You a Real Imposter? 242

All About Imposters 244

In the Walled City 249

Writer as Worker (Interview with Adrian Shirk) 253

Eating Artists 261

The Hustle is the Destination 265

Travelers' Notes (Interview with Mai'a Williams) 267

Part 6 Entertaining Friends and Strangers 273

Make Your Stories Public 274

Submit 278

Don't Give Up (interview with Ursula K. LeGuin) 280

You Can Touch the Page You Wrote 282

Dear Ariel (Dreaming in Davis) 284

Take a Manuscript and See it Become a Book with a Traditional Publisher 285

Get an Agent if You Need One (Interview with Laura Mazer) 290

Think About Your Book Project the Way Your Publisher Will 293

Dear Ariel (Agent-Shy in Ogunquit) 302

The Future is Decentralized 303

We Really Need to Do Something About Publishing 309

Conclusion: Wayward Forever 312

A Wayward Writer Reading List 315

Acknowledgements 317

About the Author 318

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