Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS The Story of How a Book Happened

William Least Heat-Moon

eBook - 2014

Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper—the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. Far from being... a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happenedis an adventure story of its own, a journey of "exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that... more