How to Be a Writer

Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

How to Be a Writer
Marcus Berkmann
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Hardback
h222 x 138mm - 208pg
7 Jun 2022 UK
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9781408713839
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Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in that time, several of them in the right order. This, his 13th or possibly 14th book, is about those years of writing: the triumphs (few), the heartbreaks (many), the sackings (more than you would expect), the biscuits (many, many more than you would expect). In it he somehow makes the act of staring out of a window wondering what to say next seem both fascinating and, in some strange way, enviable, whereas, like most writers, he rarely leaves the house other than to go to the pub or the off-licence. Often asked how you become a writer, his advice remains: Please do not. There' s already enough competition out there and we don' t need any more. His advance for this book was about enough to buy a packet of Jaffa Cakes.
Berkmann is one of our funniest writers -- Craig Brown Berkmann is highly entertaining . . . with an anarchic Monty Pythonesque sense of fun -- Alain de Botton
Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front of various television screens swearing at incompetent England batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a regular contributor to Private Eye and film critic of the Oldie, and writes book reviews for the Daily Mail. His books include Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer,Fatherhood: The Truth and A Matter of Facts: The Insider' s Guide to Quizzing.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781408713839
Published: 7 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Little, Brown
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 22mm
Pages: 208

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