Best Writing Tip: Learn to Write Garbage
BY SARAH KELLEHER For me, writing used to move in cycles. First is the inspired phase. I’d put my laptop by my favourite window, wear my favourite I’m-not-going-out clothes and make my favourite tea. A dozen enthusiastic pages would fly out of me. I’m doing it, I’d think. Then I’d read it. And I swear […]
Let Nothing Stop Your Writing
BY CHARLIE CY ‘The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to […]
It’ll Never Be Perfect
BY PATRICIA A. NUGENT As I grappled with my father’s volatile behaviour, hoping he’d change as a result of his infirmity, his hospice worker consoled me by saying, ‘You die the way you live.’ I’d expand on that maxim today to say, ‘You write the way you live.’ In my case, that ‘way’ was being […]