These lectures and readings were delivered during McClanahan's tenure as Writer in Residence at Ashland University. The five lectures address the sources of a writer's material, the creative process, and the writer's responsibility to the world outside her door. The readings include poems, essays, a parable, and a dramatic monologue.

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We Are All Beginners

... Proust said that a painter must become stupid before the canvas. So tomorrow morning all over the world, we writers will sit at our desks and become stupid again …