Still Writing

The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

By: Dani Shapiro

Narrated by: Dani Shapiro

“Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between.” —Jennifer Egan

From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, a meditation on the artistic process, and advice on craft, Still Writing is an intimate companion to living a creative life. Writers—and anyone with an artistic temperament—will find inspiration and comfort in these pages. Offering lessons learned over twenty years of teaching and writing, Shapiro shares her own revealing insights to weave an indispensable almanac for modern writers.

Practical, heartfelt encouragement for the writing life

This book is a collection of short essays focused on various aspects of the experience of being a creative writer, from a celebrated novelist and memoirist. She generously takes us inside her daily writing process, her thoughts about writing, advice on how to approach and capture memory, the emotional ups and downs of writing, and how all of this is interwoven with daily family life. If you are trying to write, this book will help you to understand why it is so challenging and how to make it easier and more rewarding. It is also a love letter to creative self expression and to practitioners of the writing craft. Meditative, candid, grounded, and inspiring. Highly recommend.

Reading her book, the author assumes an off-putting "priestess voice."

Some good advice, interwoven with way too much personal story.
And reading her book in this Audible version, the author assumed an off-putting "priestess voice."

Great insights into "being" a writer

Dani gives the reader great reminders and possibly new information on what being a writer is all about. The pitfalls to avoid are equally spelled out.

Like permission to just be. To just write. Thank you.

This book soothed the voices of doubt and inspired me to keep practicing, keep writing, keep living as present as this human body is able to. The flow of thought, story, memory feels just right. Real, deepening, vulnerable, and practical.

Expansive!

So generous and specific! What a treasure trove of story and hard won advice from a dynamic american storyteller.