Kirsten Ogden at The Kenyon Review has taken all the advice. But what about putting it into practice?
I started off well, but I guess morning writing wasn’t my thing. Neither was afternoon writing, it turns out. (Neither was writing at night!) Go figure. Sitting in that chair is hard. Plus, its been 4 months of [...]
Why something goes into a writer’s notebook is fairly obvious. The notebook is there to replace memory. Memory is fragile and in any case it’s creative. A notebook on the other hand is not at all fragile. It’s a recording device. You have the thought, or you come across a group of words or an [...]
The summer is not an easy blogging period for me. I usually find myself physically isolated from modern technology and with little inclination to get closer to it until I return home to my own desk.
Last year I asked several bloggers a series of five questions and published their answers on this blog during the [...]
The Hari Kunzru interview in The Guardian:
What advice would you give to new writers?
Have the strength to (metaphorically) kill your babies: just because you spent a long time on something, that doesn’t make it any good.
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The Independent has interviews with American troops in Iraq:
“I just remember thinking, ‘I just brought terror to someone under the [...]
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