Book review of 1000 Words by Jami Attenberg

If you need to write a ebook, it’s essential know the identify Jami Attenberg. A bestselling novelist and memoirist, Attenberg has gathered greater than 30,000 followers for her #1000wordsofsummer mission over the previous a number of years. It’s a two-week on-line accountability dash, throughout which she sends fast pep talks—her personal and people of writer mates—to encourage legions of fellow scribes, who in flip elevate one another up on-line. Her newest ebook, 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round, collects and distills that mission right into a motivational quantity each author ought to maintain shut at hand. Wise and frank phrases from heavy-hitters akin to Ada Limon, Deesha Philyaw and Min Jin Lee, and from Attenberg herself, serve to drown out the cruel inside critic, the fixed exterior static and the crushing doubt that threatens to derail any large inventive enterprise. It’s like being at a writing retreat with some of the very best up to date authors on the planet.