For those of us who come from decidedly non-literary backgrounds, there is something wonderful about being a writer - all the shallow stuff we are supposed to despise; the café talk, the book launches, the scanning of literary pages feeling guiltily gratified when a friend gets a bad review. Forget for a moment the loneliness, paranoia and financial insecurity, Being a Writer is great fun.Doughty also has a place to post your writing, for others to read your work-in-progress. (ht This 'n That)
But there is a catch. You have to write. This is something that would-be writers sometimes appear not to have grasped , , ,
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
How to Write a Novel in a Year
Louise Doughty tells you how to do it, in this article from London's Telegraph.