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This title in other editionsWriters and Their Notebooksby Diana M. Raab
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Book News Annotation:Raab, an essayist, memoirist, and poet who teaches in the UCLA
Extension Writers' Program, collects essays by writers on the
practice of journal-keeping. Writers like Sue Grafton, Phillip
Lopate, Lori Van Pelt, John Dufresne, and Robin Hemley, who work in a
variety of genres, offer advice, personal recollections, and tips on
using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture creativity, develop
a writing voice, and draw from, with some sample entries. They
address such topics as using a journal in writing a private eye
novel, blogging, writing in public places, recording observations,
and using a journal to deal with mental illness.
Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:'I salute the editor of this valuable collection, Diana Raab, who has done such a sensitive job of gathering these diverse, eloquent, and experienced voices and encouraging their thoughtful, heartbreaking, rambunctious, free flights of testimony and speculation into being. Freedom is a frequent theme in these pages. The freedom to try out things, to write clumsy sentences when no one is looking, to be unfair, immature, even to be stupid. No one can expect to write well who would not first take the risk of writing badly. The writer"s notebook is a safe place for such experiments to be undertaken." Phillip Lopate, from the foreword Synopsis:A peek inside the writerly testing grounds of Sue Grafton, Kim Stafford, and others What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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