I’m 85,000 words in on a novel. I began writing the manuscript about one and a half years ago, fitting it around my paid work, family and life at large. It’s been a joy to write, mostly, but the manuscript is in need of a lot of revising and reconsidering, and a reader, so I am grateful to have been offered a place in the Banff Wired Writing Studio to work on it further.
I’m also working on a non-fiction title about meat.
Here are some of the book I’ve read about writing that I recommend to you. Each one offer advice that is inspiring, wise and enormously sensible.
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley
Thing Feigned or Imagined, Fred Stenson
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times
The Paris Review collect interviews, all of them
