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Why Writing About Writing About Writing?
I've got a writing book problem. Every time I have a book writing problem, I pick up a writing book, and since writing is hard I've read dozens of writing books in the last decade. Some of them were good. Some were really good. And a good number should have been biographies instead. This is my attempt to get out what makes a writing book good, when in your writing journey to read them, and why you would want to in the first place. And also what tone they're written in because nobody needs a drill seargeant when you're looking for a kind mentor.
No really, what's with the name?
It was orignally supposed to be Meta Meta Writing but I didn't want to get out SEO'd by articles complaing about wannabe evil overlords.
Who writes this anyway?
Emily Munro has been crafting stories ever since she wrote her first chapter book in first grade and hasn’t stopped since then. So she’s pretty sure she’ll get the hang of this whole writing thing eventually. In the meantime she reads anything that will sit still long enough, plays ttrpgs on the weekends, and drinks far too much tea. She can be found scribbling away in various Brooklyn coffee shops with the Starlings Writers Group and on bluesky @thatEmilyMunro.bsky.social. She has stories published in the three Of Gods and Globes anthologies and in Alternative Holidays by B Cubed Press. See all her published works.
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Why Affiliate Links?
Bookshop.org is a certified b-corp which supports local independent bookstores. Their affiliate program allows you to build these nifty lists of books. And if the purpose of recommending books is ultimately for people to aquire and read them, I would rather people aquire books from a place that supports bookstores. Funds earned from links offset a small part of the costs of running this website.
What's with the old-timey prints and photos?
I need to put something in the header boxes. Why not? I get most of them from the United States Library of Congress website and there will be a link or citation at the bottom of every page where one is used. Like so:
Photo credit: Image cropped. Harris & Ewing, photographer. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT MAIL WAGONS. , 1916. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016867255/.
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