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This 4 page paper discusses Lorrie Moore's short story "How to Become a Writer" and gives a brief biography of the writer. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is so very true. This paper briefly discusses the author and her work. Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore was born "Marie Lorena Moore" in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York;
she currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin (McNally, 2005, p. 20). She was graduated "summa cum laude from St. Laurence University" in 1978 and went on to earn her Master
of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982 (McNally, 2005, p. 20). She holds the position of Delmore Schwartz Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
is the author of several books and more than 30 short stories, the form for which she is best known (McNally, 2005). Shes received the "National Endowment of the
Arts Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rea Award and PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction" (McNally, 2005, p. 20). She reveals that despite her success, shes as scared
as the next writer when she sets out on a new project, saying that if even great novelists can write bad novels, what does she think shes doing? (McNally, 2005).
The Story Theres a very old saying to the effect that its easy to be a writer; all one has to do is sit down with a sheet of
paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish they were doing something else. But writers
have to write-they have no choice; plots and ideas keep popping into their heads demanding to be written down; its the thing that keeps them going. And a writer
has to write no matter what other people think about her work, or whether shes ever published, or anything else. Thats one of the main points of Moores story:
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