{"product_id":"minding-the-muse-a-handbook-for-painters-composers-writers-and-other-creators-9781603813631","title":"Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators","description":"\u003cp\u003eMinding the Muse is a practical handbook for the artist or writer--highly experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between. Long draws from her extensive background as a poet, writer, and master teacher, but also gathers the insights and practices of a wide range of high-achieving artists, including mystery writer Raymond Chandler, choreographer Twyla Tharp, poet and performance artist Patti Smith, and the painter Joan Mir . Beginning with the first sparks of artistic creation--\"Gathering, Hoarding, Conceptualizing\"--Long moves through the various stages to \"Completing Works\" and \"Poet as Peddler, Painter as Pusher: Marketing.\" Every creative worker will find something here to take to heart and into the studio or workroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong, Priscilla:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based author and teacher of writing. Her work includes poetry, creative nonfictions, fictions, history, and science. Her other most recent book is Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Her book of poems is Crossing Over: Poems. She is also author of The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life and the scholarly history book Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. For more information please visit PriscillaLong.com and PriscillaLong.org.","brand":"Coffeetown Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669758972178,"sku":"9781603813631","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3fb3a3e2-2374-4c5e-ad06-e6131150881e.jpg?v=1733765590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/minding-the-muse-a-handbook-for-painters-composers-writers-and-other-creators-9781603813631","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}