"Desperation is the mother of invention, and if you think you have a future as a writer, you're nothing if not desperate." Such is the advice of John Warner in this innovative and slightly insane book. Equal parts humor and strange instruction, Fondling Your Muse is: Packed with quirky tips from the editor of McSweeney's Internet TendenceClearly one-of-a-kind in its earnest advice to helpless, lazy, and untalented writersA new spin on timeless writing problemsExploiting writers' most vicious insecurities with flair, this guide will make writers worse at the craft and, as a result, eminently more publishable. John Warner is the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency and the co-author, with Kevin Guilfoile, of My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush, which was a Washington Post best seller.
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