I’ve been invited to participate in a Writing Process Blog Chain where writers who blog describe their current writing process by responding to a standard questionnaire. Belinda Castles, who writes wonderfully lyrical novels and whose lovely company I enjoyed during …
The writer laid bare
A guest post by Kathryn Ledson, the author of Erica Jewell series: How I became an author
I hadn’t considered the question of what led me to become an author until I was asked it by some of my readers. And then, as I mentally retraced my steps over the five decades of my life before getting …
My poem The Allure of History was published in Cordite‘s chapbook Spoon Bending curated by Kent MacCarter. You can read it here: http://cordite.org.au/poetry/the-allure-of-history-%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8/…
Writing unfaithfully
To my mind, the craft of writing resides not in formulaic rules (e.g. ‘don’t use any adverbs’ or ‘no more than one adjective per noun’), but in that elusive process when our innermost, vaguest dreaming eventually shapes itself into a …
A Guest Blog Post by Susan Blumberg-Kason, American memoirist, on learning not to hold back in writing.
Six years ago I started writing a memoir about my marriage to a man from central China and how I thought I would thrive in this cross-cultural marriage. But I soon realized that my years of studying China and Mandarin …
The book that changed my (writing) life
All serious writers I know can name literary influences that have shaped their emotional landscapes, linguistic sensibilities, writing themes, literary tastes and perhaps even worldviews.
British novelist Ian McEwan, for example, cites Phillip Larkin’s poetry as his major influence, saying …