Category: Books on Writing

Kit Reed’s “Revision”
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Feb 17
I first read Kit Reed’s Revision (probably) four years ago. It was one […]
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Dorothea Brande’s “Becoming a Writer”
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Feb 10
I read Dorothea Brande’s Becoming a Writer right after reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing […]
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Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones”
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Feb 3
Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones is not a book for everybody. I’m […]
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June Casagrande’s “It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences.”
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Jan 27
“It had been being the best of times, it had been being the […]
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Robert Newton Peck’s “Fiction is Folks”
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Jan 20
Robert Peck’s Fiction is Folks was a difficult book for me to get […]
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