I've had the idea for awhile to write a book about pottery and though the focus and details I'll keep under wraps, more out of shyness than thinking that someone might nab my good idea, I'll just mention here as a way to make it real to me that the project has started with a very modest rough draft of the very beginning of a preface or introduction!!! Phew, a lot of words for not much at all. I don't think I'll mention it again until I actually get a publisher interested in it.I picked up this old book ("Pottery Craft" by Doreen Brookshaw), published the very year I was born, at Argosy, a used and rare (I guess that means I am too)bookstore I stumbled upon last week while looking for refuge from a cold, miserable rain. I've purchased old pottery and ceramics books for years, often enjoying them more than the new and contemporary ones I also purchase. I wouldn't say I'm kooky about my collection, definitely not obsessed, but when I die I will have quite a ceramics library to pass on.
Most pottery books I never grow tired of. I go back to them again and again, poring over the photos first, then captions, then reading on deeper and deeper levels. Recently I've found myself studying them for how they are structured and written as much as for the pottery information to be had within their covers. I've gathered maybe 5 or 6 of them that are my favorites and that each have something info-, writing-, structure-, or mood/look-wise that I want to include in my book and I page through one or all of them regularly for inspiration.
