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INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Popular Books of All Time
(via Electric Lit)

“Dante had Beatrice, but Orwell had Stalin.”

— Rebecca Solnit, speaking at Trinity University, 11/12/14 (via twigbookshop)

To LONG!

Life got a bit in the way of me writing here. Things that are still true:

*A year into writing full time and I’ve got somewhere- sorta. Still no agent but I’ll get there. 

*Still in the Czech Republic. 

Things that are different: 

*My last name is now Augustine- I done and did the married thing. 

*My waist line is smaller. I had to fit into a wedding dress. 

Things to come: 

*Stating a novel. 

*Working on picture book manuscripts. 

*The holidays. Yikes. 

12 Essential Essays for Writers

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The Electric Typewriter and Amanda Oliver have put toghether a list of their all-time favourite essays for writers:

On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion - A great essay about making notes that gets to the very core of the writing process

Write Like a Motherfucker by Cheryl Strayed - Raw, emotional advice on the role of humility and surrender in the often tortured world of the writer

Thoughts on Writing by Elizabeth Gilbert  - On disicpline, hard work, rejection and why it’s never too late to start

Write Till You Drop by Annie Dillard - “Do you think I could be a writer?” “I don’t know… . Do you like sentences?”

Everything you Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes by Stephen King - Short, sharp advice on everything from talent and self-criticism to having fun and entertaining your audience

Why I Write by George Orwell - On egoism, a love of beauty, the quest for truth and the desire to change the world — Orwell’s ‘four great motive for writing’.

Despite Tough Guys, Life Is Not the Only School for Real Novelists by Kurt Vonnegut - A beautifully argued defence of the role of teaching in developing writers.

That Crafty Feeling by Zadie Smith - A lecture by a great essayist and novelist on the craft of writing.

A Place You All Know Well by Michael Chabon - On the central role of exporation in writing.

The Nature of Fun by David Foster Wallace (excerpt) - DFW on what drives writers to write

Uncanny the Singing That Comes from Certain Husks by Joy Williams - “Who cares if the writer is not whole? Of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well…”

Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Neil Gaiman - A meditation on inspriation

Those Words That Echo…Echo…Echo Through Life by Jamaica Kincaid - Another great essay from the the New York Times Writers on Writing series

If you any suggestions for additions, let us know!

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