Something Louise Doughty said at the Perth Writers Festival earlier this year has really stuck with me, and still disturbs me a little bit. I hope time hasn’t altered my memory of what she actually said, but it was definitely something along the lines of being a writer who doesn’t collect her ideas on random bits of paper. I thought we all did!
As I remember it, Doughty said that she’s not one of those writers who keeps a journal with lots of ideas and snippets of fiction. She doesn’t write …