Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
by Maggie Smith
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"“Your creativity is calling. It needs you,” urges poet and writer Maggie Smith. This guide on craft is an open, thoughtful gold mine of advice for writers and nonwriters alike. Filled with breakdowns of Smith’s own poems, as well as exercises and suggested outside reading, these pages invite you to reference their knowledge over and over, for a lifetime."
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