★No one is born a writer, and writing also requires practice and skill. If you have an interest in writing, don't be afraid of failure. This book will teach you how to write terrible words - take the first step, keep improving, and you will be able to create good works.
★The author has rich experience in writing teaching and introduces to readers how to train fifteen traits that are beneficial to writing. Becoming a writer is not only dependent on talent, these traits are also crucial and can be cultivated.

“The first draft of anything is shit,” says Ernest Hemingway. And Jennifer Egan confirms, “You can only write with regularity if you are willing to write badly.” Writers are not born, they become writers, mostly through the ability to suspend judgment on the building under construction, with floors covered in rubble, that is the novel we are working on. In this “handbook of writing that speaks little of writing,” Francis Trento teaches us how to free ourselves from the mystique of talent, inviting us to train fifteen qualities that have often been instrumental in building the careers of successful male and female writers. Through stories from literature as well as sports and film, we learn the art of change and discover, with Gustave Flaubert, that “talent is a long patience.”

Francesco Trento
Francesco Trento has published essays and novels with some of Italy's leading publishing houses, and is the author of several films including 20 Cigarettes and Crazy for Football. He founded the solidarity writing school How to Write a Great Story, which with free classes from more than two hundred authors from around the world has generated donations of more than 175,000 euros. The royalties from this book will also be entirely donated to charity.