{"product_id":"stay-with-writing-practices-for-sustaining-the-writers-work-and-life-paperback","title":"Stay with Writing: Practices for Sustaining the Writer's Work and Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCindy Shearer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith rejection and intense commitment such integral parts of the writing life, many struggle to stay with the creative process.\u003c\/b\u003e Combining explorations of perseverance, intention, riding through failure, and meaning-making with bringing oneself fully into one's art, \u003ci\u003eStay With It\u003c\/i\u003e offers writers practices to sustain their writing and their creative life. Through a hybrid of craft, pedagogy, memoir and personal essay that call upon reflective exercises and prompts, Cindy Shearer helps writers understand themselves as artists as well as the nature of writing as an artistic process and practice. Drawing on knowledge from art forms beyond writing, from dancing to visual art, this book shows writers how to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Develop their own tools for sustaining their practice that are adaptable and unique to them\u003cbr\u003e- See rules as opportunities and that there is no right or required process\u003cbr\u003e- Recognize failure as a way to probe what they really want as writers\u003cbr\u003e- Ask questions to understand their markets and create sustainable processes based on external drivers\u003cbr\u003e- Discern their true goals focused around what they truly want to create. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving, illuminating and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eStay With It \u003c\/i\u003ewill help writers discover and claim a process they can rely on for support again and again.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCindy Shearer\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and program chair for the writing MFA program at California Institute of Integral Studies, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTen Not So Tangible Tools For Writers, \u003c\/i\u003e a work of text and image developed in the early 2000s and published \u003ci\u003eMission at Tenth, \u003c\/i\u003ethe MFA writing\/arts journal. She has served as co-producer of the podcasts \u003ci\u003eArtifact \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMeaning Making\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47331127984377,"sku":"9781350455450","price":42.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/GbM732xMsA9781350455450.webp?v=1769611365","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/stay-with-writing-practices-for-sustaining-the-writers-work-and-life-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}