Writing About Writing About Writing 28

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January 31

Part 28 of an intermittent series where I read or re-read the writing books on my shelf to see if they're worth keeping. See previous part here and Index of all books here.

So I haven't yet done the Year of Buying NO Books and a Climb Mount TBR challenge blog, which I said would be in January. I have for the past few years had a target to reduce the TBR and not only have I failed to reduce it I've actually added to it. And now there's no more room on the shelves. So a radical approach is needed - no more new books! Well, it's a 1 in 1 out approach. If I buy a book I have to get rid of one on the TBR. But the aim is to buy no new books this year (I'm sure friends will ignore this and release books and I'll have to buy them or I'd be a bad friend.) So, let's see how that goes! - I ignore January as that's when my birthday is, and Xmas - and 'acquiring' books may not count - if people happen to give me books or I receive ARCs, ebooks, although they don't take up shelf space still count against the 1 in 1 out rule.

WAWAW has gone slowly since the last post but I'm starting to read books I have on a related tangent (books about creativity) that I'll add to this - although not specifically about writing. I'll also read books about writing that are on the TBR and blog about both.

One book I did read off the writing shelf though is Unstuck

This is supportive and written by someone who has overcome crippling writers block and full of things to try - but, like writing exercises in 'how to' books I didn't do them as I went along and now there's a resistance to picking it back up to work through them. I think this is a good writing block book and it's currently on the 'to keep' pile at least until I come back round to the writers block section again and then it'll be measured against the ones I need to re-read.

However I have written a story this year - and plan to write more. I've joined two crit groups and a write in group so am hoping that this will spur me to creating a lot more this year when compared to last year (watch this space). I also have a dozen or more stories written during and just post-pandemic that I need to evaluate and revise.

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