One of the many best things about this job is getting to meet and listen to writers you admire. I have just come down from a cloud of Sydney Writers Festival events which stimulated, nourished, and confused me. Yes, confused. It is still a big overwhelming event and can be alienating. I have been thinking [...]
Category Archives: emerging
in precarious weather
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
this via bookninja has comforted me immensely, particularly the following points: 24 The writing life, like life in general, has a sacramental and a secretarial side. As years pass and duties accrue, the secretarial, clerical mode can grow like a lymphoma and start to squeeze life from the sacramental. 25 So learn to be irresponsible [...]
EWF reader: Critical Gratitude
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I just got my Emerging Writers Festival reader in the mail. hooray for writerly advice and emergentsia in-jokes! i’m reposting my piece from the reader below, with permission. Critical Gratitude “If you promote yourself, you will have no success.”- Lao Tzu Your dream has come true. Your debut novel is in the shops, you’ve been [...]
