Comments on: the writer’s notebook http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/ "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." Annie Dillard Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:53:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cynthia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-768 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:49:12 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-768 Hope the book is useful for you too! Would love for you to report back after you get into it.

]]> By: jenniferneri http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-764 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:01:07 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-764 Did I mention that I also ordered the book from Chapters?
You should get into sales! LOL

]]> By: cynthia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-742 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:07:11 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-742 Oh, yes, Cristina, “stuck stories” is much better. Shorter and more to the point than the little dialogue I overheard between Linda’s stuck stories.

Linda, please report back to let us know if the writer’s notebook is useful to you too. I hope so.

]]> By: Linda http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-741 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:28:17 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-741 My hope is that you’re right on both counts, Cristina.

]]> By: survivorscribe http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-740 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:02:16 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-740 Sounds like a great resource. I’ll have to pick it up.

Linda, perhaps they are stuck stories rather than failed stories. I have some of those that would benefit from reading this book as well.

]]> By: Linda http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-735 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:15:57 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-735 Yes, these stories haunt me, but until I know why they didn’t “work”, I won’t know how to fix them. I just ordered the book.

]]> By: cynthia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-733 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:08:34 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-733 Barb-I did find The Writer’s Notebook to be very user friendly. I got something out of almost every essay. I love this from Dorothy Allison’s chapter on place: “For a year I took a picture of every motel I stayed in.” That’s place.

Linda-
-Failed story?
–Who is she calling a failed story?
-She hasn’t even tried to throw us away yet.
–Even if she did, it wouldn’t work.
-That’s right. We’d rise like the smoke of a genie and circle her head until she wrote us out again.

Jennifer-It is exciting when something I read enables me to look at something I’ve written in a new way. I’m not going to the conference this year because I went to Sirenland in the spring. BTW, I have links to all the conferences I’ve attended on the Links page.

Almost forgot to mention that the book comes with a CD of two panels from the workshop so that you can hear the voices of Dorothy Allison, Denis Johnson, Ron Carlson and others as they talk about craft issues.

]]> By: jenniferneri http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-732 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:00:31 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-732 Did you attend this year, Cynthia?

]]> By: jenniferneri http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-731 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:56:39 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-731 oooh, sounds exciting! It’s wonderful to alter things in such a way, and have it re-examined.
I was not familiar with this book. Thanks!

]]> By: Linda http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/07/01/the-writers-notebook/#comment-723 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:34:07 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2797#comment-723 I agree with Barb about how you used excerpts from the book. I’ll have to read this one. You’ve already given me some things to think about in my own failed stories.

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