Getting all formal for a moment … Green Thought in an Urban Shade – Words and Pictures on Urban Green Space Irish artist Fion Gunn and English writer Kay Sexton are travelling to China to present a collaborative exhibition of paintings and texts which focuses on the public gardens of four cities, Beijing, Dublin, London […]
How much can you like somebody you’ve never met? No, it’s not an internet dating question (although it could be) it’s a question about the weird, intense, often painful world of writing and editing as it is done, often nowadays, via the Internet. One thing you start to notice about editors is they can be […]
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me … You can’t get a nicer present than a positive review, and Storyglossia has said good things about ‘Titties’ which appeared this week in Carve. In other news, I’m going to be running Alicia Gifford’s interview on Thursday, so if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to […]
A new role … The Her Circle Ezine staff is entirely volunteer. From locations around the United States and abroad, this small collective of talented individuals work to breathe life into this publication.misty k. ericson | founding editorBorn and raised in the Metro Detroit area, Misty began writing fiction and poetry as a child and […]
Short Trumpet Voluntary (blown by myself, of course!) My ultra-short story, Blending In, has just been published by Bleeding Quill, an intriguing small publication with a very clear manifesto. Frank Ard, the editor there, has been very easy to work with – and I can’t wait for my copy to arrive, as the biographies of […]
Friday Fun … Thanks to my inestimably good friend Steve Kane for putting me onto this piece of inspired lunacy. Pastiche, done well, can be more than fun; it shows the bones of language through the flesh of subject matter – and here, the combination of language and subject is about as unlikely as you […]
Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz died yesterday, aged 94. He was a prolific and talented writer whose Cairo Trilogy – “Palace Walk,” “Palace of Desire” and “Sugar Street” – is a masterpiece of wit, irony and domestic tragedy. In 1994 he was attacked by an extremist who objected to the liberal sentiments in some of his […]
Concentration and writing If you pick up any guide to effective study, or self-help book that professes to teach creativity you’ll find the same message. Humans can’t concentrate for more than 25 minutes at a time, therefore, we should not read, write, revise or otherwise engage in strenuous mental effort for more than about half […]
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