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Work of fiction = making a living from writing in the UK /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Work of fiction/ by Christina Williams.
其他題名:	making a living from writing in the UK /
作者:	Williams, Christina.
出版者:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2024.,
面頁冊數:	xi, 227 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Fiction - Authorship. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64206-7
ISBN:	9783031642067

Work of fiction = making a living from writing in the UK /
Williams, Christina.

Work of fictionmaking a living from writing in the UK /[electronic resource] :by Christina Williams. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2024. - xi, 227 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Creative working lives,2662-4168. - Creative working lives..

1: Introduction: the precarious work of diction writing -- 2: Theorizing the Writer as Cultural Worker -- 3: Making a Living From Writing Fiction -- 4: Writing as Work and Not-Work -- 5: The Future-Orientation of Writers: hope and maybeness -- 6: Discourses of Writing -- 7: Conclusions.

Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK explores the lived experiences of fiction writers in the UK and how they make a living. Based on a substantial body of interviews with a range of fiction writers, it considers the ways that writers think about and talk about writing as work and how 'discourses of writing' operate to support or undermine them as cultural workers. It argues that discourses of love, luck, magic, and 'being a writer' function in complex ways to position writers in enchanted and elevated spaces which both nurture their practice and undermine their status as remunerated workers in the creative sector. The book shows how the positives and negatives of often precarious cultural work are played out for fiction writers. It has implications for writers in the ways that they think about and talk about themselves as workers, and how the publishing industry values their contributions. Christina Williams is Research Fellow in Cultural Economies & Associate Lecturer in Media Communications at the University of West England, Bristol, UK.

ISBN: 9783031642067

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-64206-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

648345
Fiction
--Authorship.

LC Class. No.: PN3355

Dewey Class. No.: 808.3

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