A Cabinet of Dreams is a collection of Katherine Ann Wynne's short stories, short plays, excerpts from longer works, mostly not published before. But the focus of the book is to look at a question. Where do a writer's words come from? The journalists' subject matter is real people and events quite separate from himself; he writes to convey that reality as clearly as he can, or at least as his editor wishes. But the novelists, all writers of fiction, must create worlds and build them plausibly within the given terms of the pieces they are writing. So where do the words that shape that world come from? A Cabinet of Dreams is about what writers actually do as they sit for hours trying to capture and convey bits and pieces of the real world or worlds that only exist within their minds.
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