The Writer's Hustle: A Professional Guide to the Creativity, Discipline, Humility, and Grit Every Writer Needs to Flourish

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The Writers Hustle is a comprehensive guide to all the things successful writers do when theyre not sitting at the keyboard. Drawing on wisdom from dozens of experienced authors, professors, students, and other writing professionals, this book offers pragmatic and systematic advice on the everyday professional practices that make up a writers life. In ten chapters, Franklin covers the full arc of a writers professional development, from setting goals and establishing a routine, to mastering writing groups and workshops, earning a mentor, and becoming a literary citizen. He explores strategies for attending conferences, finishing projects, submitting work, and maintaining a life-long writing habit, and he examines the potential benefits of a formal creative writing education, including a close look at how creative writing students can leverage their liberal arts training into a wide range of careers. Informative and personal, The Writers Hustle is an ideal companion for university students, recent graduates, and independent enthusiastsanyone looking to cultivate the creativity, discipline, humility, and grit that every writer needs to flourish.

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The Writers Hustle delivers a frank, entertaining and practical exploration into how to sustain the writers life. Never claiming to provide THE answers, Joey Franklin examines the diverse approaches and practices necessary to staying in the game. * Beth Cooley, Gonzaga University, Spokane Washington, USA *

Author Bio

Joey Franklin has taught creative writing and literature in Ohio, Texas, and Utah and is the author of two essay collections, Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (2020), and My Wife Wants You to Know Im Happily Married (2015). His essays have appeared in such magazines as Gettysburg Review, Hunger Mountain, Ninth Letter, and Brevity, and he has published articles on craft, theory, and professionalization in The Writers Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Assay, and Triquarterly. He is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, and he coedits the literary journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.