After deciding to spend the Christmas period reading The End of Vandalism again I think I can safely say that it is one of my favourite books. It’s hard to tell when you first read something if it’s a favourite or just fresh in your mind, but Tom Drury’s first novel was not only asContinue reading “Another Post Where I Go On About Tom Drury”
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My Nerdy Boring Schedule
I’ve never been good at organising or scheduling myself and when it comes to writing my time has never been especially well planned. I have too many projects on the go at any one time and often no plan on how to tackle any of it. So I end up doing too much at theContinue reading “My Nerdy Boring Schedule”
Lincoln in the Bardo, Toby in the Lake District
This is where I have been this week. After a very long time without a holiday we finally managed to get away and have the most perfectly tranquil few days that I think it is possible to have. It ticked all the boxes on my short list of boxes to tick. Nice coffee, nowhere toContinue reading “Lincoln in the Bardo, Toby in the Lake District”
Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley
This week I read Bad Dreams, Tessa Hadley’s short story collection. I have been reading an awful lot of short stories lately, partly because I went on a literary journal buying spree a while ago and they have been slowly arriving in the post. But I bought Bad Dreams because Tessa Hadley judged The BridportContinue reading “Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley”
The Importance of Structure
One of the things that is most important for me when writing is that I should understand the structure of what I am trying to write. I might not always know what the structure is when I start, but it is essential that I figure it out along the way. Often when I write IContinue reading “The Importance of Structure”
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