Archive for December, 2007
An Unexpected Bonus
I’ve spent a few days working on the new version of Bentwater Roads. Written a new first scene and reworked the structure of the opening. The plan is to try to have a complete version to send to Ivan by the Christmas holiday. And then today – entirely unplanned – I found myself typing an [...]
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Doris Lessing
From her Nobel address:
Writers are often asked: “How do you write? With a word processor? an electric typewriter? a quill? longhand?” But the essential question is: “Have you found a space, that empty space, which should surround you when you write? Into that space, which is like a form of listening, of attention, will come [...]
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The Notebook
It took me a while to find the notebook on Allan Ramsay but it makes interesting reading. Not least because the date on the front is 11th October 1994. It still feels like rich territory. Reading it today I feel less inclined to excavate Ramsay’s life and I’ve spent a couple of hours exploring [...]
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