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Monday, 23 April 2012

Death doesn't always become you[r story]

A couple of posts ago, in Nothing but the truth, I found myself saying new writers and unconfident writers, paradoxically, seem to gravitate towards... well at one evening of short fiction readings, nine out of the ten stories read were centrally, chiefly, about death. And competitions sifters say the same. I used to think crossly that it was just a cheap thrill - some instant gravitas - but I'm a slightly nicer person these days. and a blog reader got in touch, because she's neither new nor unconfident, but often writes about death. Is it really such a Bad Idea?... Read more →

Posted at 10:00 AM in A Writer's Life, Books and reading, Competitions, Craft, Creativity, Events, Food and Drink, Short Stories, Technique, Writing, You and your writing | | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Not Me Me Me at all

It's been a bit quiet here lately, for which I apologise. I tried to get Jerusha Cowless to stand in for me, first while I was going full-steam-ahead with re-building the first 100,000 words of the novel, and teaching an OU tutorial and a six-week Writers Workshop online course in Self-Editing Your Novel. And I tried to get in touch with Jerusha again just before I headed off to France to research the novel (6 days, 2 planes, 1 dead & 1 live (hire) cars, 10 novel-settings, 270 photos, 1100km, ∞ bad French/good food/great ideas...). Eventually I got a message... Read more →

Posted at 12:53 PM in A Writer's Life, Blog and blogging, Book Trade, Events, Jerusha Cowless, Agony Aunt, Writing, You and your writing | | Comments (16) | TrackBack (0)

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