Why do we write and how do we keep writing? What compels us to set pen to paper or peck at a keyboard while staring at a screen? What has helped us with specific writing problems? What are our Muses?

Here in the Private Collections Room are lists of Researchers' favorite books and media. Feel free to browse through our lists to find out what inspires us, motivates us, and helps us.

Would you like to donate to the Private Collection Room? Just leave us a note in a conversation thread below. Please include a link for each item that best shows what that item means to you. You can include the link to any electronic media, if you wish. (House Rules apply, of course.)

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Terry Pratchett OBE

¹The entire performance of The Pastoral Symphony starts at about the 46 minute mark.²