Speaking of journals
Subtitle: children's book writers talk about their diaries, notebooks, and sketchbooks
By: Paula W. Graham.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Diaries -- Authorship.; Children's literature -- Authorship.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Children's book writers talk about their diaries, notebooks, and sketchbooks
First sentence: Keeping a journal is living a wide-awake life.
Description: This unique book allows readers and aspiring writers to look over the shoulders of more than two dozen successful authors as they work in their jounals. Through interviews and sample journal entries, the authors show how the journal is a laboratory for recording ideas and a creative way of dealing with emotion. Journal keeping also helps shape their lives and careers. Rich with insights and practical advice, this book is a must for anyone interested in writing or the creative process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
title: Barbara Bash "One Hand, One Voice"; pagenum: 10
title: David Harrison "Keeping a Life"; pagenum: 21
title: Jennifer Owings Dewey "My Home Away from Home"; pagenum: 29
title: Eileen Spinelli "Life's Small Moments"; pagenum: 36
title: Graham Salisbury "Not Your Normal Beast"; pagenum: 42
title: James Cross Giblin "Working with Words"; pagenum: 52
title: Judith Logan Lehne "Taking off My Masks"; pagenum: 60
title: Jaqueline Woodson "Going to My Room and Closing the Door"; pagenum: 66
title: Jean Craighead George "In the Journal Lies the Story"; pagenum: 74
title: Jim Arnosky "Looking, Watching, Wondering"; pagenum: 82
title: Kathleen Krull "It Keeps You off the Street"; pagenum: 93
title: Mary Jane Miller "More than Words on Paper"; pagenum: 102
title: Jack Gantos "Hannibal Crossing the Alps"; pagenum: 113
title: Mary E. Lyins "From Heart to Head to Hand"; pagenum: 121
title: Marion Dane Bauer "Half-Guilty Hobby"; pagenum: 130
title: Pam Conrad "Time Capsule"; pagenum: 136
title: Stephen Trimble "A Personal Library of My Past"; pagenum: 145
title: Sara Holbrook "Going to My Writing Place"; pagenum: 155
title: Richard Ammon "One Writer's Laboratory"; pagenum: 162
title: Lynne Cherry "Reality Check"; pagenum: 169
title: Rich Wallace "Dictated by Emotion:; pagenum: 178
title: Terry Tempest Williams "Embers from a Fire"; pagenum: 186
title: Bruce Coville "Fishing for Memories"; pagenum: 193
title: Patricia Lee Gouch "Can You Hear My Voice?"; pagenum: 198
title: Naomi Shihab Nye "A Constellation of Images"; pagenum: 208
title: Kim Stafford "Faith in a Fragment"; title: Gretchen Will Mayo "My Footprint on the Path"