Book description
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!
Eric Nicol was born in Kingston, Ontario, and claims to remember
the dinosaurs well. He graduated from the University of British
Columbia with an arts degree and a writing habit. He is the author of
more than thirty-five books, including the recent Old Is In,
and has won Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times.
Currently, he lives in Vancouver.
