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Novelist as a Vocation
by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami presents a series of essays about various tenets of life as a professional novelist. These are less of a how to guide rather than a navigation of Murakami's career and experiences up to 2015 when the essays were originally published in Japanese.
We follow Murakami through his experiences in his early career as he opened his jazz cafe and decided to try his hand at writing a novel to winning a prize for his debut that allowed him to write full time. From there, we see his discomfort at the Japanese reaction to Norwegian Wood selling two million and his moving to the US in order to breakthrough in the Western world.
There are still things to take from his experiences, but there are also passages that are quite repetitive and probably would be better reading for somebody who has never written as you find his experience is the same as an indie writer like myself.
It's written in the clear no-nonsense language of his novels and will be a must read for long time fans.
We follow Murakami through his experiences in his early career as he opened his jazz cafe and decided to try his hand at writing a novel to winning a prize for his debut that allowed him to write full time. From there, we see his discomfort at the Japanese reaction to Norwegian Wood selling two million and his moving to the US in order to breakthrough in the Western world.
There are still things to take from his experiences, but there are also passages that are quite repetitive and probably would be better reading for somebody who has never written as you find his experience is the same as an indie writer like myself.
It's written in the clear no-nonsense language of his novels and will be a must read for long time fans.