50 Search results for “learning to write”.
An Interview by Ian Hocking
John Baker is a UK-based author. He’s been blogging since 2002, which makes him a chap with uncommon staying power. He has published nine novels, the latest of these being Winged with Death (Flambard), a story set in modern-day York and Montevideo of the early 1970s.
This is what Val McDermid has to say about [...]
Out Stealing Timber I
I was going to call this novel Unedited.
Unedited?
A short novel for the internet.
Although, with a nod in the direction of Per Petterson, it might be called Out Stealing Timber, because that’s what I was doing when the idea came to me.
We were basking in a heatwave during the summer and I set the saw-horse up [...]
Summer Returns
I usually take a few weeks off in the summer. In the past couple of years I have turned the blog over to other writers or bloggers with the aid of a few questions, but this year it will go dark for days, sometimes weeks, at a time.
Once again I shall be in Scandinavia, remote [...]
Extract from Winged with Death
(My latest novel is entitled Winged with Death. It is partly set in Montevideo in the seventies in the midst of civil war. Another arm of the novel is set in the present day in the North of England. It is a novel about time and tango and revolution, abduction and denial. Published by [...]
Creating a Text – L. Lee Lowe
What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
Far too much mystique surrounds the Writer, as if she (in my case) were some sort of demigod who, with the proper offerings, can be induced to hand down a Sacred Text. In fact, it’s all very simple, a process that anyone with an IQ of [...]
