Do you want to write a novel and make a lot of money? Then this book isn't for you. But if you're thinking not about money, but about the words and sentences that stir within you, yearning to become a text, then you've just struck gold. This handbook contains neither templates nor blueprints, and certainly no user manuals; rather, it takes you seriously as someone embarking on the risky undertaking of transforming experience and language into art. It's about the joy of beginning and the inspiration, about finding characters, about sound and harmony, but also about writer's block and waiting. The book is permeated with the pleasure that writing brings and the joy that its results can generate. biography Ursula Krechel, born in Trier in 1947, studied German literature, theater studies, and art history. She taught at various universities. Her first poetry was published in 1977, followed by volumes of poetry, prose, radio plays, and essays. In 2009, Ursula Krechel received the Joseph Breitbach Prize. In 2012, she received the German Book Prize for her novel "Landgericht" (Regional Court). The author lives in Berlin. New product