Fingers. Their performance on the keyboard, pianist-like; this private recital. Their pulsing sensations and rhythms are supposedly at our mind’s service, but really – feeding it, stamping their music onto our vocabulary and imagination. They labour hard. Sometimes they …
The writer laid bare
When you write a memoir, the usual angst involved in artistic creation is usually amplified by the ever-escalating anxiety around many ethical issues involved in writing about real events. I’ll be discussing this side of memoir writing, but also …
Many great recommendations for holiday reading in this article in The Age and I was really moved to find my book here too, even though it’s been more than a year now since its publication… You can read this here: …
A Guest Post from Kev McCready: How to Get into ‘The Zone’ of Writing
As a writer, one has certain responsibilities. Being a guardian of truth and beauty in a howling, godless void is a mere detail. We also have to pay the rent, do grocery shopping, clean the toilet, and have meaningful/meaningless relationships. …
Just did one of the more comprehensive interviews ever, as far as websites go… Mostly about writing and literature, as always. Details here:
http://clancytucker.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/28-november-2015-lee-kofman-guest-author.html…
Once upon the time…
The imminent beginning of yet another year makes me think about other beginnings – those first pages, paragraphs, sentences, words that pull readers into our tales. How do we make them sing?
Most obviously, banality is the enemy of good …