The novel that was a short story, part 202

September 27, 2007Uncategorized

The beginning that I posted here on Monday isn’t as good as I thought it was when I posted it … but that happens all the time. The trick is to write on: and that’s what I’m doing. Cafe solo image (c) NouvellesImages S.A. et Kurt Hutton – Getty images 2005 Posted by Angela Young … Read More

The short story that was a novel, part 201

September 24, 2007Uncategorized

After what seems like years, but has really only been weeks, of editing my head off, I find myself with a jewel of a day (today) when the paid editing has gone away, at least for a day, and so, after the beginning I wrote here I wrote this: …But I know I heard someone … Read More

FICTION ALLSORTS

September 19, 2007

A literary agent friend of mine has just told me about a new website for writers and readers called Fiction Allsorts. There aren’t any links up to either readers’ sites or writers’ sites, nor links to books read or written yet … the site is still under construction. But I like the name (I can … Read More

Writing about writing

September 15, 2007

George Mackay Brown wrote this about writing: Therefore he no more troubled the pool of silenceBut put on mask and cloak,Strung a guitarAnd moved among the folk.Dancing they cried,‘Ah, how our sober islandsAre gay again, since this blind lyrical trampInvaded the Fair!’ Under the last dead lampWhen all the dancers and masks had gone insideHis … Read More

Booking Through Thursday

September 13, 2007

Here’s today’s: COMFORT FOODOkay . . . picture this (really) worst-case scenario: It’s cold and raining, your boyfriend/girlfriend has just dumped you, you’ve just been fired, the pile of unpaid bills is sky-high, your beloved pet has recently died, and you think you’re coming down with a cold. All you want to do (other than … Read More

The short story that was a novel, part 200

September 12, 2007Uncategorized

Hmmm … even though I’ve written that my relationship with my writing has changed, see here, I haven’t actually done any writing since then to test it. So how do I know it’s changed, I hear you asking? Because, just now, I returned from my writers’ group (we meet monthly but we haven’t met all … Read More

The LibraryThing

September 9, 2007Writing

I have spent most of today making a library of my books (no, I mean making a library of a small number of my books) on my library at the LibraryThing – a wonderful invention which I discovered when a member kindly wrote a review of SPEAKING of LOVE there. And as I chose the … Read More

Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and synchronicity …

September 7, 2007

I was talking to a friend tonight, and I told her that I discover myself through stories, in every way. I find out who I am by reading fiction, and I find out who I am by writing fiction. But I didn’t know I did this until I began to read Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s … Read More

The Man Booker shortlist, FIRST NOVELS

September 6, 2007Uncategorized

So, none of the first novels longlisted made it to the Man Booker shortlist but perhaps, because this list has been so wonderfully readable (no I haven’t read them all, hardly any in fact, yet, but I’ve been reading dovegreyreader’s reviews and Asylum’s and I’ll get to them soon) maybe there’ll be more next year … Read More

What kind of writer am I?

September 4, 2007

Thanks to an archived blog at John Baker’s blog, I discover that I am this kind of writer: You Should Be A Poet You craft words well, in creative and unexpected ways.And you have a great talent for evoking beautiful imagery…Or describing the most intense heartbreak ever.You’re already naturally a poet, even if you’ve never … Read More

A new relationship with my writing …

September 3, 2007

… is what I need. I realised over the weekend, while thinking about other relationships in my life, that the relationship I have with my writing is one of dread fuelled by the certainty that it will be a struggle: that I always expect to discover that what I thought was a story isn’t, that … Read More