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Q&A Works of literature that are (ostensibly) about the act of writing

Just read 'Wicked', by Gregory Maguire, which was about imagination and used the Oz books by L. Frank Baum as a jumping off point. Also, 'A Very Long Engagement', which was a novel, set in the Grea...

posted 12y ago by Charles Laster‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T00:41:20Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/4022
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Charles Laster‭ · 2019-12-08T00:41:20Z (over 4 years ago)
Just read 'Wicked', by Gregory Maguire, which was about imagination and used the Oz books by L. Frank Baum as a jumping off point. Also, 'A Very Long Engagement', which was a novel, set in the Great War (who knew it'd go into sequels?) that was very self-reflective about writing.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-09-20T18:30:28Z (over 12 years ago)
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