by Andy West | May 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
I have two notebooks. One is for ideas, overheard bits of dialogue, my morning pages, fragments written during a train ride, diagrams about the architecture of the story I’m working on, maxims and book proposals condensed into eight words which I later cross out. One...
by Will Buckingham | Apr 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
To express or to explore? The art of nonfiction Some months ago — in that strange, hushed lull after finishing the manuscript of one book, and starting to think about another — I sat down to write. I fired up my laptop. I flipped through my notebook to the page where...
by Yvonne Jewkes | Apr 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Throughout my career, I’ve been told that my writing is ‘accessible’. Being an academic of typically fragile ego, I’ve worried about this, wondering if it’s a euphemism for ‘not clever enough’. I’ve endeavoured to write more academically, but it has always felt...
by Will Buckingham | Mar 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Of all the things that Ernest Hemingway never said one of the most widely shared must be this: ‘There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ This misattributed quote is popular among writers. You can find it all over the internet....
by Andy West | Mar 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I first wanted to write, I was terrified that if I sat at my desk and started typing, I’d have to see my own juvenile sentences in front of me on the screen. I mustered courage from the fact that I had done a philosophy degree. I told myself that if I’d written...
by Yvonne Jewkes | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
As we entered 2022, it seemed that everyone was either writing a memoir or writing a book about how to write a memoir. So, are they of any use? The short answer is yes, they can be inspiring and motivational, as well as offering practical advice about the basics of...