Startle And Illuminate Carol Shields On Writing Carol Shields by Carol Shields, Anne Giardini, Nicholas Giardini 9780345815965, 0345815963, B07B66GFTS instant download after payment.

"Whether you’re a reader or an aspiring writer... this book has a lot to say about how to write and read. It also... has something bigger to say about how to live.”  -  Toronto Star

She read and commented on her friends' manuscripts. She taught writing classes and she spoke and wrote about the craft of writing. Her own discipline rarely faltered. Her daily practice was to write a new page, then edit the page written the day before, and then repeat, until, after a year or so, her book was finished. 

“For anyone missing the Shieldsean way with words, [Startle and Illuminate] is not merely instruction — but a gift... [Startle and Illuminate is a] highly readable collection... Beyond the advice, the book is also, yes, illuminating in terms of Shields’s process and even her life... There are also some sharp observations about how women have been marginalized in literature... Perhaps you are not a writer, but a reader who misses the mastery of Shields’s prose, the excitement of reading new (‘new’) words of hers. This book is for you too.”   -  Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail 

Now in her own words, as clear and straightforward as a glass of water comes Startle and Illuminate, the best possible guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. This essential work, drawn by her daughter and grandson from her voluminous correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, is a last gift from one of our finest novelists meant for both...