Really interesting book on writing and an interesting writer's memoir - will be thinking about it for some time. (Very belated review!)

While Writing to be Understood leans towards non-fiction writing, Shapiro writes for the storyteller and the creative writer in Still Writing. The book is divided into sections titled Beginnings, Middles, and Ends!! I was able to go back and forth between beginnings and endings, and enjoying every bit of reading about writing. I found myself highlighting and bookmarking so much that I realized it might end up becoming most of the book

Shapiro has written this book as a series of essays, and as the book description says, it is part memoir, part creative meditations, part insights into writing, and then of course, tips and advice on the creative writing process. She writes such that it makes the reader feel she is a confidant, a friend, one you want with over a cup of chai! And even as you feel all warm and fuzzy reading this book, you learn! You learn to learn to approach writing with fresh(er) eyes and with renewed insight. What is more, reading Shapiro’s essays makes you appreciate the power of the short personal essay when it is well-written.

Now I wonder why I have not read her books before!!

Source: Publisher ARC from NetGalley/Personal copy