Category: editing

You will never be finished… I wrote the final chapters of my fourth novel this weekend, an enterprise that’s been in the works for four or five months. This isn’t a long time by any means, but as those of you who write will be aware it’s a process that often seems like a Herculean […]

Writing is an activity of the body, not the mind I was halfway through writing my first novel when the pandemic hit. March 2020, and suddenly I was told to go home from work and not come back. I was elated; it meant I had all the time I wanted to sit at home and […]

Writing the other vs. writing others A few weeks ago there was story in the news about a home chef who was attacked by a journalist and woman of colour for the crime of writing a book on Asian cuisine. The journalist in question (a feminist, no less) ripped into the author, incensed that a […]

Keyboard dyslexia: real or imaginary? I started writing three or four years ago. During that time, I’ve written four novels, two collections of short stories, a children’s trilogy, and much else – good and bad alike – in between. All told, I’ve written over a million words at this stage. And yet, I don’t know, […]

Writing out the block I used to wonder how anyone could get writer’s block, and I never engaged with literature about the topic for fear I might, somehow, catch it — as though by association a psychological trip-switch would be set. And let’s face it, what else is the block but a mind-trap?  In my […]