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Writers' Confessions

(a 13-part series)

Michael Glassbourg
TickleScratch Productions
24 minutes per part • 2005
Also available on DVD

This crisp, fast-paced documentary series considers the issues central to the complex craft of writing. Each half-hour episode focuses on three different topics, with some of Canada's most lauded scribes weighing in. Wry and provocative, candid and thoughtful, the series is a must for those who read Canadian Literature or aspire to write it themselves.

Authors featured throughout the series include: Guy Vanderhaeghe, Elizabeth Ruth, Russell Smith, Ray Robertson, Camilla Gibb, Robert Sawyer, Tim O'Brien, Sally Cooper, Michael Crummey, Mary-Lou Zeitoun, Stevie Cameron, Diane Baker Mason, and more.

Use the following links to see detailed descriptions of each episode:

 

Childhood | Young Writer | Adulthood

 

Education/Mentors | My First Book | Critics/Reviews

 

Choosing To Be a Writer | After Success | Business and Money

 

Autobiography/Biography | Writing To Explore and Find Meaning | Dreams, Emotion and the Subconscious

 

Writing: Heaven & Hell | Writer's Block | Angst and Rejection

 

Solitude and Other Writers | Home and Family | The Reader

 

Fame | The Making of a Book: Agents, Covers and Tours | Book Readings

 

Writing Life Alternatives | Diversions | "I Can't Not Write"

 

Writer? | What "Normal" People Think of Writers | Writers on Writers

 

Writing as a Job | Writing Methods | Forms of Writing

 

The Writing Environment | An Office of My Own | "Style": An Approach to Writing

 

Self-Discipline | Research | Editing

 

Land and the Word | Spirituality of Writing | Motives and Aspirations

Subject(s): Artists, Literature