One of the best pieces of advice a writer can get is – read, read, READ. Read as widely and as voraciously as you can. Make reading a priority even over writing, at least for some years. Be adventurous in …
The writer laid bare
I’m absolutely thrilled that my short story was one of the 10 chosen (out of almost 400 submissions) for the forthcoming annual fiction edition of The Big Issue. This edition will be out on 14th August. For the full list …
A Guest Post by Laurie Steed: The Family Guide to Writing & Parenting
Once, I was a full-time writer.
My day began at six, with coffee and a slice or two of fruit toast. I’d ruminate on character arcs and plot developments as though they were the very stuff of life. If time …
A new review of my memoir The Dangerous Bride just came out, and it discusses thoughtfully a book’s theme overlooked by most other reviewers but important to me – migration: http://jasonnahrung.com/2015/07/08/the-dangerous-bride-by-lee-kofman-sex-love-and-belonging/…
This was the first time in my life that I got asked if I believed in aliens… (I had to think long and hard about that). Otherwise, this interview I just did for the website of a Bangalore-based writer is …
Inhabiting Your Characters
Some time ago I was approached by a writer asking me to mentor her. She was writing a novel set in seventeenth century Spain. I read the synopsis. The story – a young woman has to choose between her sexual …