The Writer's Notebook

by Howard Junker (Editor)

Even award-winning writers begin with notes scrawled on the backs of old bills, on hotel stationery, and in spiral-bound notebooks. These humble beginnings are often awkward, halting, and unliterary. And they are usually kept private. Here sixteen acclaimed contemporary writers open their notebooks to reveal the first stages of their creative process.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1995

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think a lot about how a writer makes the leap from private to public. The bridge each writer constructs between life and page feels hugely significant to me. This book offers some good examples of how the writer get to the far side of that bridge.