Planning ahead: Live Literature Event LIT UP – A Spotlight on Performance Poetry, Literature & Spoken Word Wed 20 – Fri 22 September 2006, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal LIT UP is a brand new event for arts professionals: a showcase of performance poetry, literature and spoken word events alongside debates and discussions, all designed to […]
Beating Writer’s Block – Procrastination and the Inner Editor Finishing what you’ve started Is as easy as writing the last line first. It really works. Define the mood of the conclusion and the rest follows … If the inner editor is your problem Make yourself finish a complete page before allowing yourself to look back […]
The non-fiction life As I’ve said before, making a living out of fiction alone is something between hard and impossible. I freelance as a journalist and writer, and often find that one style of writing informs or triggers the other. This week’s nicest news, for me, is probably going to be that my article on […]
Pen names – the saviour of the serious writer If I had to spend all my time writing as Kay Sexton I would be: (a) very poor(b) unbearably depressed. Literary fiction provides a living for very few writers. Rejection is not just commonplace, it’s almost universal, by which I mean that almost every literary fiction […]
Myfanwy Collins tagged me with this meme: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place (parentheses) around the ones you’ve never even heard of. Sadly, I can’t seem to cross […]
What’s better than galleys? Getting your complimentary copies! Through the post this morning came the gorgeously jacketed ‘Mexico, A Love Story’. It’s a Seal Press book from Avalon Publishing Group, edited by Camille Cusanamo, with whom I’ve worked several times now and whose selection and editorial skills I’ve come to respect and admire. You can […]
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