Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana M Raab
A collection of essays by professional writers that explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops. It offers valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hardy endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer's creative spark.
"Diana Raab.. 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"
An essayist, memoirist, and poet, Diana M. Raab is an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She is the author of three poetry collections, Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You, The Guilt Gene, and My Muse Undresses Me, and the memoir Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal - winner of numerous awards including the 2009 Mom's Choice Award for Adult Nonfiction and the 2008 Indie Excellence Award for Memoir.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781570038662 |
| ISBN 10 | 157003866X |
| Title | Writers and Their Notebooks |
| Author | Diana M Raab |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of South Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2010-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Commended for IndieFab awards (Anthologies) 2010 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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