{"product_id":"must-write-9780889204812","title":"Must Write","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong before she became the renowned author of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eSchmecks\u003c\/i\u003e cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as \u003ci\u003eMacleans\u003c\/i\u003e, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. \u003ci\u003eMust Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e draws from these diaries selections that map Staebler’s construction of herself as a writer and documents her frustrations and struggles, along with her desire to express herself, in writing. She felt she must write—that not to write was a “denial of life”—while at the same time she doubted the value of her scribblings. \u003cbr\u003e  Spanning much of the twentieth century—each decade is introduced by an overview of key events in the author’s life during that period—the diaries vividly illuminate both her intensely personal experiences and her broader social world. The volume also presents four key examples of Staebler’s public writing: her first published magazine article; her first award-winning publication; the opening chapter of her book \u003ci\u003eCape Breton Harbour\u003c\/i\u003e; and her lively account of the Great Cookie War. \u003ci\u003eMust Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e portrays an ordinary woman’s struggle to write in the context of her lived experience. “All my life I have talked about writing and kept scribbling in my notebook, as if that makes me a writer,” wrote Staebler in 1986. This volume argues that the very act of writing the diaries, with all their contradictory accounts of writerly ambition, success, and conflict, made Staebler the writer she yearned to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christl Verduyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291436691707,"sku":"9780889204812","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780889204812.jpg?v=1772483335","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/must-write-9780889204812","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}