Is it Tuesday already? Right-o. Here’s a book I’ve kept handy for several years now: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood (Cambridge UP, 2002), based on a series of lectures she gave at Cambridge on the process of writing and her ideas about identity and the writer. Part memoir, part [...]
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writer’s bookshelf: negotiating with the dead by margaret atwood
November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized, book review, life, writing process
Tags: existential crisis·identity·margaret atwood·writer·writer's bookshelf
writer’s bookshelf: wicked plants by amy stewart
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized, book review, research
Wicked Plants is particularly of note to writers because of its focus on plants that are poisonous and/or noxious in some way, which makes it a nice supplement to herbal guides that focus on edible and medicinal plants, or more general field guides. Murder mystery writers in particular will find much to love here.
