01943cam a2200325 i 4500 678852433 TxAuBib 20230228120000.0 230223s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781771965163 PAP 13.95 1771965169 PAP 13.95 TxAuBib rda Marche, Stephen. On writing and failure or, on the peculiar perseverance required to endure the life of a writer / Stephen Marche. On the peculiar perseverance required to endure the life of a writer. Windsor, ON : Biblioasis, 2023. Stephen Marche. 128 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Field notes ; 6 Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer’s life. Along with his own history of rejection, Marche offers stories from the history of writerly failure, from Ovid’s exile and Dostoevsky’s mock execution to James Baldwin's advice just to endure, where living with the struggle and the pointlessness of writing is the point. Issued also in electronic format. 20230306. jz. Marche, Stephen. Authorship. Field notes ; 6.