Archive for February, 2008
Novel ideas: Tips from Tan Twan Eng and Nathan Englander
I took pages and pages of notes at the Perth Writers Festival, and I haven’t had a chance to look at them again until now. Some notes are great ideas for the novel I’m working on; some are books I want to read; others are interesting tidbits about the writing life.
I’m going to keep the [...]
Paulo Coelho procrastinates too!
Regular readers of this blog will know I’m always struggling with procrastination. So many ideas, so many things to distract me. So when I read this interview with one of my favourite writers, Paulo Coelho, at the GoodReads website, I was most pleased to hear this about Coelho’s typical writing day:
Before going to bed I [...]
Inspiration from the Writers Festival
All my blogs have been a bit empty over the last week, because I spent a few days at the Perth Writers Festival. It’s the first I’ve attended since coming back to Perth a year or so ago, and I was more than pleasantly surprised at how professional it all is - perhaps Perth isn’t [...]
Chinese New Year resolutions and another writing contest
With Chinese New Year just beginning, it seems an appropriate time for me think about resolutions again, just to check I’m on track. February’s arrived frighteningly fast and that means I should have made progress - one twelfth of my resolutions should be done.
Let’s see: again to Resolution 3, to submit to 20 short story [...]