I recently read an excellent article by Professor Alexandra Harris in The Author Magazine about the best weather for writing. Traditionally people have associated springtime with artistic creativity, all those budding plants and trees somehow linked with the...
One of the nice things about being a writer is the opportunity to go to places you wouldn’t normally go to and experience things you wouldn’t normally experience, all in the name of research. Julia Cameron refers to this process of seeking of new experiences as...
It’s a funny thing with writing, some people think they can just write without doing any learning at all and others feel they’re not going to be able to write successfully without doing an MA in Creative Writing at a top university. Both approaches have validity....
People often remark that I must be very disciplined to be a writer. If only they knew … (see my earlier post about life getting in the way!) But displacement activity aside, there is an element of truth in the observation. There is certainly more to writing than...
