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Find a book club
Find a Book Club, a club that does what it says on the tin, asked me to recommend 10 books for book clubs (including two of my own).
Author Archives: Angela
The short story that was a novel, part 200
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged new relationship with my writing, short story, writers' group
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The LibraryThing
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
The Man Booker shortlist, first novels
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 … Continue reading
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What kind of writer am I?
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 … Continue reading
A new relationship with my writing …
… 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: … Continue reading
Tagged dread, MATs, new writing relationship
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When is writing also a MAT?
When it’s another piece of writing. I managed to stop writing the short story (the one that was a novel, you remember) this week so that I could resurrect the idea for a children’s novel from a horrible first draft … Continue reading
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Publishers and writers: the relationship?
These are what’s left of the boyf’s roses, and as I was looking at them last night and wondering if they had another day left in them (they have, because I decided to dry them this morning), we began a … Continue reading
Tagged indie publishers, parent-child, publishers, shelf secrets, taking responsibility, writers
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Booking through Thursday … on Friday
Just caught up with Booking Through Thursday (thank you Simon at Stuck in a Book)… where a weekly bookish question is posed. Here’s this week’s question: When growing up did your family share your love of books? If so, did … Continue reading
Emily Young’s Wounded Angel
sculpture copyright Emily Young, photograph copyright Angelo Plantamura You can see this beautiful angel (called Wounded Angel I) in Kew Gardens, in London, or you can see a photograph of him in Tacit Hill’s A Light Touch and a Long … Continue reading
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Editing, MATs and piles of paper
Most writers, in fact surely all of us except those with humungous sales, earn their living by doing something else (obviously not by MATing). I earn mine by editing other people’s non-fiction, and/or proofreading it. I have just quoted for … Continue reading
Back to reality
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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Tagged Penelope Lively, reading, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, The Photograph, what I want from a book, why I write
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Orchids for Simon
I am overwhelmed. This orchid is for Simon at Stuck in a Book for his overwhelming review of Speaking of Love. See The word on … at the top on the right. Orchids, according to Clare Florists’ flower meanings are … Continue reading
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Tagged dovegreyreader, indie publishers, Mark Thornton, MATs, Mostly Books, Orchids, review for Speaking of Love, Stuck in a Book
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Writing, MATs and ticker-tape turn ups
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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Roses, MATs and Annie Lawson’s "Partner"
Isn’t this rose beautiful? My boyf gave it to me (see below), and I took its portrait with my new digital camera which I went out to buy today, prompted by the beauty of Find me a Bluebird‘s blog, and … Continue reading
Blogging (is a MAT)
I’ve spent the morning roving from blog to blog (I never could surf, too much water up my nose) and finding more and more delightful things to read. I’ve been reading blogs about books and life at Asylym, BooksPlease, Cornflower, … Continue reading
Making the language sing
So … I spent yesterday rewriting the first seven pages of the short-story-that-was-a-novel. Or, as I prefer to call it, making the language sing. Now that’s not a full-scale opera you understand, just one short under-rehearsed aria, but I hate … Continue reading
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Man Booker Longlist, MATs and Natalie Goldberg
So … the Booker Longlist is out and it includes four first novels which can only be good news for those of us with books which have cleared the finding-a-publisher-for-the-first-novel hurdle. I looked in vain for Speaking of Love, knowing … Continue reading
