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ISBN 978-1902835013
\nEmpiricus Books.<\/p>\n

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Based on the author’s own experience\u00a0The Writing Game<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>answers questions such as ‘how long does it take you to write a novel?’, ‘where do you get your ideas’, ‘do you do much research?’, ‘ have you ever had a manuscript rejected?’ and ‘do you write every day or only when you get the inspiration?’<\/p>\n

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The Writing Game<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>is an informative guide to the pitfalls and hazards of dealing with publishers (is imprint important?) and agents (do you need one?), tells you what to do about writers’ block and how to survive the disappointments and rejections encountered by writers such as Bernard Shaw, Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Lewis Carroll, Somerset Maugham, Frederick Forsyth, John le Carre (told ‘he has no future’), William Golding and Iris Murdoch. Those who doubt their potential as writers would do well to remember the literary establishment’s reaction to Ian Fleming’s fiction: ‘James Bond will never sell’.<\/p>\n

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The Writing Game<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>gives the lowdown on the vexed questions of titles and book-jackets and. by way of encouragement, points out that a statue has yet to be raised to a literary critic.<\/p>\n

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Chapters on\u00a0Writing for the Small Screen\u00a0<\/i>(in which the goal-posts are constantly being moved), and\u00a0Writing for the Big Screen\u00a0<\/i>give hilarious accounts of Friedman’s encounters with producers and directors both in the UK and Hollywood, and are interspersed with a personal account of the ups and downs of her own action packed life.\u00a0The Writing Game<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>is a must for both established and would-be writers as well as for readers who want to know how it’s done.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

“A vivid and revealing exploration of creative writing. It is thoughtful and fluent and deserves to be widely read.” \u00a0\u00a0Mark le Fanu,\u00a0General Secretary, Society of Authors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“This unique survey of the creative territory is as indispensible to the writer and the interested reader as the Michelin Guide is to the traveller, and it’s much more fun to read.” \u00a0\u00a0Clive Sinclair,\u00a0Award-winning novelist<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“The pathos and bathos of writing for television.” \u00a0\u00a0Laurence Marks and \u00a0 Maurice Gran,\u00a0TV comedy writers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“Rosemary Friedman brings a cool touch to the hot-headed business of being a writer. She adds information and advice from Flaubert to Faulkner, and Woolf to Jong.” \u00a0\u00a0Rachel Billington,\u00a0President English PEN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“I wish I’d had this marvellous book as an inspiration, guide, and even if you like, a friend, when I started writing nearly thirty years ago.” \u00a0\u00a0Bruce Robinson,\u00a0Screenwriter, director and novelist<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\n“THE WRITING GAME is a fascinating analysis of the modern professional novelist from the inside: by turns elated, downcast, inspired, splenetic and mystified by the caprice of the Muses, Rosemary Friedman’s voice has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” \u00a0\u00a0John Walsh,\u00a0The Independent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n