Category Archives: writing

Writing, not Posting

Posted on August 28, 2008 by angela

I am writing or, more to the point, doing this before I write. I have laid the foundations and now I’m building the trellises and the supports around which the plants of my story will grow. (image found here) I … Continue reading →

Posted in arbours, John Fowles, MATs, not posting, pergolas, planning, The French Lieutenant's Woman, trellises, writing | 3 Comments

Monet and painting, MATing and writing

Posted on March 12, 2008 by angela

Today MATing translates as ‘writing this before I begin to stare through the window’. Sometimes it takes much staring before I can write. This story knows what I mean: One day Monet was sitting on the bench in his garden … Continue reading →

Posted in how writers artists and musicians work, MATing, Monet, painting, writing | 4 Comments

Builders and fishermen, a MAT with a purpose

Posted on January 8, 2008 by angela

I am MATing, but there is a point. (Well, I would say that wouldn’t I?) Last night the boyf and I were talking about writing and I said I felt as if I was assembling, not writing at the moment. … Continue reading →

Posted in a MAT, Building, fishing, Pablo Neruda, second novel, writing | 2 Comments

The writing process …

Posted on November 5, 2007 by angela

… or should that be the thicket? I seem to go from a simple idea for a novel, a contemporary Beauty and the Beast in the case of my next novel, into a thicket of handwritten notes, ideas scribbled on … Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty and the Beast, the thicket in my head, writing | 4 Comments

The LibraryThing

Posted on September 9, 2007 by angela

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in books, LibraryThing, These I have loved, writing | 2 Comments

Back to reality

Posted on August 16, 2007 by angela

So, back to reality in my writing room (I’ll be there in a minute, when I’ve written this MAT … er, I mean, blog) after a dizzy day yesterday living on the adrenalin that Stuck in a Book’s review of … Continue reading →

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Writing, MATs and ticker-tape turn ups

Posted on August 14, 2007 by angela

On Friday morning, in the bath, before I started work (a bath can be a MAT, but only if I’m still in it after the practical stuff is over), the sentence, ‘On the whole we resist falling in love’ turned … Continue reading →

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Life in my writing room

Posted on July 18, 2007 by angela

The walls are covered with quotations, this is one of my favourites: ‘A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.’ Thomas Mann. My head is always full of words but, this afternoon, … Continue reading →

Posted in first blog, MATs, writing | 2 Comments