Now Write! : Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

Today's A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more. Complemented by brief commentary from the authors themselves, the exercises in Now Write! are practical and hands-on. By encouraging writers to shamelessly steal proven techniques that have yielded books which have won National Book Awards, Pulitzers, and Guggenheim grants, Now Write! inspires the aspiring writer to write now.

Sherry Ellis's author interviews have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poets & Writers, Writer's Chronicle, Glimmer Train, and Agni, as well as other literary and arts magazines. A personal writing coach, she teaches writing in Concord, Massachusetts.