A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.Richard Bach
If I write 1000 words a day that’s fine, but then I don’t have any time to work on the 1000 words I have written the day before. Nor the many thousands of words I have already written, that need revising (or ditching). Then when do I write the emails, cook...
We adapt quickly in England. There wasn’t much of a summer (but hey – April was lovely!) and now there are night frosts, and the days are hardly awake before the light fades and evening draws in. So, we are preparing for winter, and the supermarket shelves...
It isn’t until the searchlight of your efforts goes out, in the form of a book or collection, that the temperature of reception can be gauged. Then shadows, like infra-red images of yourself, come reflected back in the opinions of others, but most importantly in...
The hardest thing, getting known. I have a product, viz. book of poetry. Poetry! People throw up their hands in horror. Poetry…yes, that function of the higher brain, tool of the depressed and sorrowful, is it still being written?”I mean, I know it still...
