by Laurel | Aug 13, 2010 | Why Write Books
The Large-Canvas Reward Writing a book offers a large canvas: two hundred and fifty-odd pages in which to articulate, refine, and cultivate those thoughts and ideas, feelings and experiences that preoccupy you, and have, often for years. But a book manuscript offers...
by Laurel | Mar 30, 2009 | Why Write Books
“A writer looking for subjects,” observes Annie Dillard in The Writing Life, “inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.” In other words, authors are compelled to tell other people about some small corner of...