Writers and their notebooks
By: edited by Diana M. Raab
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781570038655; 9781570038662
Description: This collection of essays by well-established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops--places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some entries include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hardy endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer's creative spark. Designed for writers of all genres and all levels of experience, Writers and Their Notebooks celebrates the notebook as a vital tool in a writer's personal and literary life. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-198).
Table of contents: title: Journaling-a stepping stone / James Brown; title: The use of the journal in writing the private eye novel / Sue Grafton; title: On meeting yourself / Robin Hemley; title: Journal-the place of no limit / Kim Stafford; title: Using my notebook / Ilan Stavans; title: A life observed / Katherine Towler; title: Blogging like a child-arsonist / Tony Trigilio; title: "Musements" and mental health / Zan Bockes; title: Clearing the decks / Kathleen Gerard; title: Le Misérable / Maureen Stanton; title: Sea of blue ink / Kathryn Wilkens; title: From an audience of one to an audience of anyone / Wendy Call; title: Writing in public places / Bonnie Morris; title: Notes from an accidental journal keeper / Michael Steinberg; title: Holdalls / John DuFresne; title: My own particular custom / Reginald Gibbons; title: Thoughts on a writer's journal / Mark Pawlak; title: The icebreaker / Lori Van Pelt; title: Daily doodles / Dorianne Laux; title: Forgetting to remember-why I keep a journal / Kyoko Mori; title: Keeping up with the days / Peter Selgin; title: Anne Frank Redux / Karen de Balbian Verster; title: Journaling without the journal / Michelle Wildgen