How long does it take to read The Courage to Write?
how writers transcend fear
Ralph Keyes
The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes takes about 4 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 229 pages, about 62,975 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Katherine Anne Porter called courage "the first essential" for a writer. "I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence," agreed Cynthia Ozick, "sometimes every syllable." E. B. White said he admired anyone who "has the guts to write anything at all."An author who has taught writing for more than thirty years, Ralph Keyes assures readers that anxiety is felt by writers at every level and can be harnessed to produce honest and disciplined work., Keyes offers specifics on how to make the best use of writers' workshops and conferences and how to handle criticism of works in progress; he also exposes the most common "false fear busters" (needing new equipment, a better setting, a new agent). Throughout, he includes the comments of many accomplished writers--Pat Conroy, Amy Tan, Rita Dove, Isabel Allende, and others--on how they transcended their own anxieties to produce great works.
Subjects: Psychology, Psychological aspects, Emotions, writing, writers, Authors
