Getting Started as a Freelance Writer is an essential book in my writer’s library. I’ve owned this guide since 2009, and while sometimes months pass between using it, I always find something useful in its folded, dog-eared, marked up pages. Continue reading [Zetta’s Reference Desk] – Getting Started as a Freelance Writer by Robert Bly
Negotiating with the Dead came about when Atwood was asked to give a series of six lectures at The University of Cambridge on the subject of writing. Piece of cake, she thought, but, as the time drew near, she describes a panic setting in. Continue reading [Zetta’s Reference Desk] – Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
Books I had read up to that point provided helpful advice by offering tips such as “keeping the reader engaged,” but Shapiro kept me engaged by giving me an honest look into her past and present life as a writer. Continue reading [Zetta’s Reference Desk] – Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
