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'I have never been convinced about the advice you often find in ‘How to Write’ guides that you should show your work to a friend. The assumption is that the comments you get back will be useful. It depends on who the friend is, in part. If you have written something absolutely, evidently brilliant and you show it to another writer, the response may be less than enthusiastic. If you have written something really original and ground-breaking, then it may prove too new and different to produce any useful response.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing Michael Wilding , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 17393108 2019 selected work essay

    'Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019
    pg. 38-40
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