From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   American writer, editor, professor and lecturer   
   "Much of her work focused on Italian American culture, though she was   
   also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar." (Wiki)   
      
   Crystal is most interested in:   
      
   Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling our Stories Transforms our   
   Lives (1999)   
   and   
   The Art of Slow Writing (2014)   
      
   I like both ideas.   
   I've suggested to a couple of friends, older than myself, that they   
   should write their life story -- memoir or autobiography. That was   
   enough to teach me that just suggesting the idea is not enough. Writing   
   is work, and lots of people don't think they're up to it, or don't think   
   they have the time. Another friend goes around to rest homes, talks up   
   the idea, and then follows through with practical advice, encouragement   
   and feedback to those who do take it up. That produces some results.   
      
   Being naturally slowly inclined, in both writing and reading, I endorse   
   slow writing and slow reading. I find it hard to believe people who say   
   they read several books a week -- though they tend to be people who do   
   it for a living (reviewers, radio/TV interviewers, etc.). My slow   
   reading is generally a consequence of being easily distracted; every few   
   lines I need to look something up or my mind goes wandering off on some   
   tangential track....   
      
   Slow writing is apparently advocated (in one form or another) by   
   Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence, and Stephen King. Stephen King! Well,   
   maybe his publisher said "Throttle it back a bit, Steve - the presses   
   are overheating again."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)