Pen Musings . . .

7/15/11 All Faces of Hemingway

All faces of Hemingway: http://nyr.kr/iyajml

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7/15/11 Write-Stuff/Read-Stuff

Six Great Books on Writing

1. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative,

by Vivian Gornick

2. Bird by Bird .. . Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott

3. If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit, by Brenda Ueland

4. One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft,

by Susan M. Tiberghien

5. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within,

by Natalie Goldberg

6. The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear, by Ralph Keyes

7/15/11 Excerpts: P. D. James "Talking About Detective Fiction"

Excerpts . . .

"I see the detective story as a subspecies of the crime novel. The crime novel can include a remarkable variety of works from the cosy certainties of Agatha Christie, through Anthony Trollope and Graham Greene, to the great Russians. The detective story may be considered more limited in scope and potential. The reader can expect to find a central mysterious death, a closed circle of suspects each with credible motive, means and opportunity for the crime, a detective, either amateur or professional, who comes in like an avenging deity to solve it , . . . - P. D. James, http://bit.ly/7ztC9m

07/15/11 Excerpts: "Bird by Bird," by Anne Lamott

Excerpts . . .

- from bird by bird ... some instructions on writing and life, by Anne Lamott

"Thirty years ago my other brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."