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Why write in the first place, other than your grocery list? Eric Nicol believes it's the second-most satisfying thing you can do lying down. But it's not enough to want to write. You must need to write.
Now, after more than seventy years of scribbling - he wrote for the school newspaper at Lord Byng High School in Vancouver, British Columbia - Eric holds forth on dangling participles, punctuation, and literary jargon. What's more, he answers the burning question: "How much should creative writers depend on editors to correct their grammar?"
Then Eric provides a wide selection of essays to demonstrate how it's done. These include a dramatic demonstration of the chutzpah of a big Tom wild turkey and its harem on a B.C. Gulf Island, the discovery that Eric's one-way-view window in the bathroom has been installed incorrectly, the trials and tribulations of computers and the creative process, and a riposte to the query, "Are nipples really necessary on guys?"
Pure Nicol. Minted in Canada. Priceless!
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Eric Nicol, one of Canada's best-known satirical writers, is the author of more than 35 books and has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times. He lives in Vancouver and describes himself as "pretty well retired from everything but breathing."
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Write Stuff: an Author's Handbook
- Salutation
- Tooling Up
- Reference Material
- The Writer's Image
- The Photo-Op
- The Gender Thing
- Narrowing the Options
- Modus Operandi
- Work Hazards
- Where to Write
- The Art of Actual Writing
- Reading as a Resource
- Team Writing
- Editors - Care and Feeding Of
- Publishers
- Rejection!
- Pernickety Critics
- The Literary Agent
- Writers' Unions
- Care and Feeding of Librarians
- Book Promotion
- Remuneration
- New Relationships
- The Fun Factor
- A Wordsmith's Waxings
- A Class Act
- A Clear-Cut Case
- A Moment of Majesty
- A Nocturnal Emission
- A Pickle at the Pump
- A Sampler of Evil Spirits
- A Sticky Wicket
- About Your Sox Life
- Analysis of Knee Transposition
- Anatomy of the Medical Clinic
- Andy Is Handy
- Antique Car Driving
- Cause for Alarm
- As I Recall
- Better Safe Than Sorry
- Canada's Grey Eminence
- Charles the What?
- Choosing Your Doctor
- Clueless in Gaza
- Combat Zone
- Confession of an Agnostic
- Dance Floored
- Dear Dirt
- Deilogue
- Doggerel
- Dressed to Sell
- Eerie Mail
- Egging on Sperm
- Exit Signs
- Guilt Complexity
- Gun Shy
- Haberdashery for Humorists
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Hints for Wits
- How Decadent Can We Get?
- How to Settle Indian Land Claims
- Keeping Faith on Ice
- Limping Down Memory Lane
- Lone Ranging
- Marginal Progress Reports
- Mea Culpa
- Mind over Matter
- My Brow Has the Wrong Attitude
- My Career as a Voyeur
- My Daily Fix
- My Low Self Life
- My Photo-Op Flop
- My Sex Education
- My Window on the World
- Navel Manoeuvres
- Nose Items
- Oh Solo Mio
- On Being a Referral
- On Further Excavation
- One Temp Fits All
- Only Childhood
- Other Causes for Alarm
- Perchance to Dream ...
- Pharmacist, Heal Thyself!
- Phoney Excuses
- Pore Advice
- Posterior Insulation, Inc.
- Requiem for a Scribbler
- Quaker Spirit
- Script Tease
- Sex, the Four-Letter Word
- Sexless in Space
- So, Email
- Sober Thoughts
- Talking Turkey
- The Call of the Weird
- The Cordless Lover
- The Curse of Punctuality
- The Dilemma of Disposal
- The Dreaded Digital
- The Drummer Boy
- The Genesis of Me
- The Joy of Creative Writing
- The Law of Probability
- The Pre-Shrunk Violet
- The Simpler
- The Sourcing of a Skeptic
- The Vanishing Pin-Up
- The Woes of Toes
- Titillating It Ain't
- Virgin on Silly
- When Antiquity Gets Personal
- Whipper Snapper
- Whore Housing
- Whose Globe Is It, Anyhow?
- Why Pain Hurts
- Wind Watch
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