The Happy Writer: Get More Ideas, Write More Words, and Find More Joy from First Draft to Publication and Beyond - Paperback

by Marissa Meyer (Author)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and the creator and host of the popular podcast, The Happy Writer, comes the ultimate guide to writing with less stress and more JOY.

If you aren't suffering, you aren't creating. Right?

Wrong!

Writing can and should be joyful, fulfilling... even fun! Applicable to writers in all genres and disciplines--from screenwriters to novelists, journalists to picture book authors, aspiring to many-times published--The Happy Writer is a heartfelt and optimistic guide that will show you the way to a happier writing journey.

Part craft guide, part writing coach, and part cheerleader, this book offers useful advice on a slew of common writing and publishing ailments, such as how to end procrastination, how to build a social media platform that reflects your personality, how to get your imagination to overflow with new ideas, how to listen to your intuition when receiving a critique on your work, how to overcome impostor syndrome, what to do when you're stuck in the query trenches, and so much more.

No matter where a writer might be on their creative journey, Meyer encourages them to tap into their own personal sources of joy and to celebrate every milestone, all while confronting challenges (writer's block! rejection! burnout!) with a reservoir of resources for every temperament, budget, and career.

Known in writers' circles as a generous mentor, Meyer shares stories from her own writing path to help every writer discover the ultimate joys of living their best writing life.

Author Biography

Marissa Meyer is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Gilded and Cursed; The Lunar Chronicles series, the New York Times-bestselling Renegades trilogy, as well as the graphic novels Wires and Nerve: Vol. 1 and 2, the rom-com novels Instant Karma and With a Little Luck, and The Lunar Chronicles Coloring Book. She edited the anthology, Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes Transformed. Her first standalone novel, Heartless, was also a #1 New York Times bestseller. She lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her family. marissameyer.com