Perspective These are hellebores, from my garden. Lovely aren’t they? That astonishing velvety almost-black one in the middle is helleborus niger. Now, to see the hellebores in their natural state, on the plant, you’d have to stretch out on your back under the shrubbery, which is not fun in March, with slugs and damp and […]
Here’s fun … a former colleague is involved in this and send me the details – it seems like a very good idea, and – as far as this writer can see – doesn’t harm your chances of subsequent publication elsewhere. LIARS’ LEAGUE CALL FOR SHORT STORY SUBMISSIONS(DEADLINES APR 20, MAY 25, JUN 22) Love […]
Dealing with fears – the myth of the curve Vanessa asked about the insidious voice, a personality that emerges from the ‘inner editor’ and tells us that we’ll never write something so good again, that we fluked our last success and really, deep down, we know we’re not good enough to sustain our publication record. […]
Getting to the end of the story … If you’re one of those writers who doesn’t seem to be able to finish a story, and it’s not because you’re revising as you write, so that you’re interrupting your creativity with analysis as discussed previously, it’s possibly because you are one of those writers for whom […]
Rushing to judgement When I finish working with a coaching student, or teaching a class, I’m quite often asked, what is the one piece of advice I wish writers would remember? ‘Don’t give up’ springs to mind, but much more important, to my mind, is ‘don’t rush to judgement’. It’s the judging, more often than […]
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