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 [...]
Avoiding the Piece of Cake today because it’s so very nearly finished that I’m starting to get a little afraid of it. I’m really excited about this new book and keen to let it go. I’m also questioning it a lot now that it’s getting too late to change things. That’s bringing up all these [...]
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 invited to [...]