TY - BOOK AU - Palahniuk,Chuck TI - Consider this: moments in my writing life after which everything was different SN - 9781538717950 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - Palahniuk, Chuck. KW - Novelists, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Creative writing KW - Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Anecdotes KW - lcgft KW - Biographies N1 - Author's note -- Introduction -- Textures -- Establishing your authority -- Tension -- Process -- A couple of surefire strategies for selling books to Americans -- So why bother? -- Reading list: fiction -- Reading list: nonfiction -- Troubleshooting your fiction N2 - "In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves"-- ER -