I began reading the latest issue of Creative Non-Fiction few weeks ago. In his editorial, Lee Gutkind waxes lyrical about the feature article “How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&”, and rightly so. Writing regularly (and researching beforehand) is good advice. It’s advice I intended to follow. A week or so after reading the editorial and article, I […]
There are many joyous little moments in life. For a writer, one of them has to be that moment when we learn our submission has been accepted for publication. It occurred for me again last Thursday. I’d been waiting for an email from work about something entirely different, so was avidly checking my email (which is […]
I’m applying for a fellowship. There’s a book I need to write and it’s not getting written. My hope is that the chance to carve out a small amount of time and space dedicated to this book will move it along to where it needs to get to. I’ve not mentioned the book before, but […]
The bookshop called me on Friday evening. The book I’d ordered had arrived. I said I’d be in the next morning to collect it, and I was. Rather than heading home to consign it to my ever-growing stack of still-to-reads, I dropped into a café to turn a couple of pages. This book jumped the […]
From my day-to-day reality, I long to escape. I’ve been waiting for winter to end (I live down under) so I can load up the four-wheel drive and head into the country to light a fire, build a camp, and catch my dinner; boy’s own stuff. Yet in my reading, I struggle with such tales. […]
