The story portrays the life of Holly Golightly, a young woman transplanted to Manhattan with an unknown past. She is trying to find her place in the world when she meets her neighbour, an unnamed, unemployed writer. The novella is set in Manhattan's Upper East Side during the 1940's. It follows the young writer's affections for the charming but strange Holly.
Write Is a Verb: Sit Down, Start Writing, No Excuses
This book is GOOD. Similar in concept to Holly Lisle's Motivation to Write, but definitely not the same, the two are very effective together. If you're strugging with desire to write, but having a hard time actually DOING it, chances are pretty darn good that with this book and Holly's, you will finally accomplish something.
The luminous garden scenes and playful language in this tale of late-blooming self-discovery tell the story of Holly Bloom, a girl who wants nothing more than to be a great gardener, but simply doesn’t seem to have the knack. Despite suggestions and support from her green-thumbed mom and siblings, Holly just can't get her garden to bloom. She waters and fertilizes and uses all the right gardening tools, but her daffodils don't grow and her daisies keep drooping. Armed with a positive attitude and unwavering perseverance, Holly finally realizes that she does not need to grow flowers with soil and seeds to be a success.
In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just needs a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again — "time I spent wondering what I'd done to make him leave," she says, "and what I could do to make him come back."
