“It’s compulsive behavior, writing a graphic novel. You’re not only sitting at your computer and writing, then you’re hunched over your drawing board like a monk. “Who would do that?” Alison Bechdel [Entertainment Weekly, June 9 2006] photo from her site: dykestowatchoutfor.com her book: Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic > related article: In Praise [...]

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi “This book is a fascinating find. It’s all about the ways in which writing and mapmaking are similar, and the intersections between maps and books. It’s dense, but a fascinating read.” Marney K. Makridakis – from an issue of her Artellagram newsletter – see [...]

Writers spend so much time trying to determine when they will be a “real” writer. Just like the stereotype that all accountants wear green eyeshades, the stereotypes about writers persist whether they are accurate or not. > from article Personality Traits of a Real Writer – by Julie Hood [image: Winona Ryder as Jo in [...]

In a brief autobiography, Butler described herself simply: “I’m comfortably asocial – a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.” At the age of 4 she created stories about a magical [...]