Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life
Do you like the Peanuts characters? How about the one and only Snoopy, the beagle owned by Charlie Brown? If you do, and you are a new writer, the book titled Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life is worth reading.
This hardcover book is edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schulz (Charles Schulz’s son) and features 32 essays by famous writers. They include essays by Danielle Steel, Clive Cussler, Sidney Sheldon, Cherie Carter-Scott, Thomas McGuane, Leslie Dixon, Oakley Hall, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Fannie Flagg, John Leggett, Dominick Dunne, William F. Buckely, Jr., David Michaelis, Frances Weaver, Herbert Gold, Sue Grafton, Jay Conrad Levinson, Barnaby Conrad, Elizabeth George, Budd Schulberg, Monte Schulz, A. Scot Berg, Sol Stein, Ed McBain, Jack Canfield, Shelly Lowenkopf, Ray Bradbury, Charles Champlin, Lair Koeing, Julia Child, Elmore Leonard and J.F. Freedman.
This book has 180 strips of Snoopy sitting on top of his dog house with his Olivetti typewriter trying to write. It is so funny and very entertaining. Not only the readers be entertained by Snoopy, but all 32 writers wrote about their own experiences as a writers that relates to what Snoopy is struggling to go through.
Snoopy wants to be a writer but struggles with his attempt to get published. It was not as easy as he thought it was. Snoopy has Lucy as his number one critics and as an Editorial Queen to his writing. Snoopy received many rejections slips that his friend, the little bird Woodstock, made a quilt for him and made a nest for himself as well. After so much hard work and steadfast work, Snoopy finally receives the letter he has been waiting for all this time – the publisher wants to publish his novel.
This book documents the writing process that writers will go through and the struggle to complete the draft. Shulz expresses it in an entertaining way through the Peanuts characters. The famous writers who accompany the Snoopy comic strips give much great advice.
In summarizing, the writers who’ve contributed to this book have one goal in mind: to advise the new writer to never give up on your dream to be a writer. They encourage you to continue to write and get all the help you can to make your writing better and get it published. The writing process is one miserable struggle that only a writer can understand. This book will help you to unwind and to lighten-up the challenges thrown at you while writing.
