Did you know that John Steinbeck kept a journal while writing East of Eden and that it is available in book form? For writers who struggle with such things as self-doubt, writer’s block, and guilt, John Steinbeck’s Journal of a Novel is balm to a wound. He wrote it in the form of letters to his editor at Viking Press, […]
Journal of a Novel
Journal Treasures / Let My Shadow Speak
I’d like to share something I wrote in one of my journals, just to let you know how the mind of at least one writer works. This entry was written on January 1, 2003, two years into the writing of my first novel, Between Will and Surrender. “When I am writing I am doing the thing I was meant to […]
Steinbeck and His Journal of a Novel
Did you know that John Steinbeck kept a journal while writing East of Eden and that it is available in book form? For writers who struggle with such things as self-doubt, writer’s block, and guilt, John Steinbeck’s Journal of a Novel is balm to a wound. He wrote it in the form of letters to his editor at Viking Press, calling it his way […]
