For a writer of fiction, is blogging a warm-up activity or a distraction? It could of course be either, and sometimes both. Add a bit of (necessary?) surfing to the blogging effort, and distraction is soon the name of the game. For me, it’s proving difficult to get back to any kind of writing after a lay-off … Continue reading Warm up or cool down?
Spotted this quote from Imogen Robertson who won the Telegraph Novel in Year Award a while back and whose Instruments of Darkness has now been published. On the lifestyle of a writer: “sitting at my desk, looking out of the window and making up stuff” I’ll drink to that. Continue reading The Good Life
Every now and then I’m reading a book written by a man and I can’t believe it wasn’t written by a woman. Why would that be? The first one that made me think that way was a ‘saga’ passed on to me by my Mum called The Ginger Tree. It’s about a young Edinburgh woman who leaves … Continue reading Can’t believe it’s not
I’m dipping into Sir Walter Scott, who in the early 19th century was everyone’s favourite novelist. The idea is to get into the mindset of my next hero and his generation. I’ve started with The Heart of Midlothian, not by choice but because it was the only one I could get hold of without shelling out cash or … Continue reading Language!
I still can’t manage sustained typing but it’s good to get back to the blog. Going back to work has meant less time for reading but I’m still working through the disparate selection I picked up from the library last week. I registered my unexpected liking for the widely disparaged Island on Twitter, since when I’ve been tackling my … Continue reading Tell me a story
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