The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice, From Keats to Kunitz
There are a lot of compendia of writing advice around.The Writer's Home Companionstrikes a deeper chord than many because its editor, Joan Bolker--who's also a psychologist--used to teach writers at Harvard as well as counsel them.  Hence, many of these essays get inside the writer's head and heart:Anne Tylerrecounts her "distractibility,"Gail Godwinand Bolker herself examine those internal "watchers" that keep us from our best work, poet Patsy Cumming shares a terrific system for getting started, and manuscript reproductions from the likes ofGeorge Bernard ShawandHenry Jamesshow us the struggles aren't ours alone.