For Those About to Write How I Learned to Love Books and Why I Had to Write Them

by BIDINI, DAVE

• ISBN13: 9780887767692
• ISBN10: 0887767699
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-09
• Publisher: Tundra Books

Summary

Dave Bidini's very personal path to becoming a writer (and a well-known musician and documentary filmmaker) began when he was young and loved to pick at the typewriter. His witty "tell it like it is" approach describes the hurdles and happinesses aspiring writers can expert to experience. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dave Bidini’s first book, published in 1998, was the popular and critically acclaimed On a Cold Road, about what it’s like to tour Canada in a rock ’n’ roll band. He has since written several more books, including Tropic of Hockey (2001) and Baseballissimo (2004). When he is not writing or traveling the world, Bidini is rhythm guitarist for the Rheostatics. The band has released ten albums to date, including Music Inspired by the Group of Seven, the soundtrack to the film Whale Music, which yielded the hit song “Claire,” and The Story of Harmelodia, a children’s album. He also starred in the Gemini Award-winning film The Hockey Nomad. For Those About to Rock was his first book for young adults. This is his second. Dave Bidini lives with his wife and two children in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Paper and Cardboard	p. 7
My First Book	p. 10
Mom/Dad	p. 11
The Good Doctor	p. 13
The Bidinis	p. 14
Superwords	p. 16
Eddie	p. 18
Writers on TV	p. 21
Alan Maki	p. 25
The Sunshine News	p. 27
Mags	p. 34
Schooled	p. 38
Yes, It Ain't	p. 41
The Knife	p. 43
Possibly the Key to Literary Fame and Achievement	p. 48
Nate and Herman	p. 55
Doyle	p. 56
Zelda and F.	p. 59
The Wheelbarrow	p. 61
Nate West, We Think	p. 63
Garbage	p. 65
Fanzines	p. 70
Post-Garbage	p. 73
The Stepping Stone	p. 74
Dirty Laundry	p. 78
The Axe	p. 81
Luck	p. 82
The Prince of Darkness	p. 84
The Writer's Bark	p. 88
My Butcher	p. 92
A Is for Atwood	p. 95
Seven Frilly Pillows	p. 98
The Miracle of Rome	p. 105
Critics	p. 110
Wise Words	p. 113
Green Is Green	p. 115
Afterword	p. 119
Glossary	p. 121
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