Virginia Woolf talks fruit

"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

 

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Coming Soon

* Fresh Picked - review of a debut work by a Canadian writer, plucked from the tree of a Canadian publisher

* Fruit Basket - reviews of an established Canadian author's works, one bite -- er, book -- after the next

* Cobbler - reviews of an assortment of Canadian works on a theme, a variety of flavours to tempt your tongue

Quote stolen in June

From the Financial Times Q&A with Jose Saramago, 2009

Q. What is your daily writing routine?
A. I write two pages. And then I read and read and read.

The Wave in the Mind (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Shambhala, 2004

Re-visiting Le Guin’s Steering the Craft inspired me to re-read some of her essays in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination.

The collection, as [...]

Steering the Craft II (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Eighth Mountain Press, 1998

Beyond the reverent-but-not-too-reverent tone of Le Guin’s Steering the Craft, something else that sets this volume apart is the combination of specific advice and the suggestions offered for wider reflection on the [...]

Steering the Craft I (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Eighth Mountain Press, 1998

Unlike last month’s resource, The Writer’s Notebook from Tin House, a relatively new acquisition, Le Guin’s book has been on my shelves for several years. It comes from Eighth Mountain Press (in [...]