Bibliobibuli

My review which was in the Reads Monthly section of The Sunday Star yesterday : What actually happens when we read a literary novel?...

This message was posted by one of the participants on the Yahoo Group I run for my creative writing courses and it made me smile so much I t...

All fiction is autobiographical. But you move the furniture around. So all fiction is also invented. Real life shot through with fantasy – t...

Any young person who wants to be a novelist should of course be a reader as well. But some novels can be more hazard than inspiration. Th...

For those of you who write, there's a great piece on Forbes.com (found via BookRabbit on Twitter ) about how successful writers mainta...

Her less-than-refined writerly day began with finding her notebook, which surely she'd left right there. Then, having found a notebook ...

Real writers need frustration. They need embarrassment. They need cold, uncomfortable rooms, miles from a mobile signal. There should be an ...

The market for fiction shrinks every year, the attention paid to novels by the media diminishes monthly, booksellers demand ever-lower price...

Those of us who write love to glean the advice from those who have made a success of the business of fiction. Crime writer Elmore Leonard ...

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other pe...

You have to treat this as the single most important part of your life. You do not need anything as fancy as inspiration, just this steady ha...

More on the topic of typewriters : The Guardian blog responds to the news of McCarty's auction with a piece about other authors and t...

It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. ... I have typed on this typewriter every...

With the ultimate writing competition, the Nanowrimo , just round the corner, it's the right time to put up some links to the good stuff...

The art of handwriting teaches us to control our hands and encourages hand-eye coordination.... [it]obliges us to compose the phrase mentall...

Writing is as real as anything in your life, and probably more real than most things.** So stop calling that other stuff “real life.” This i...

Yes, writing is a lifetime’s vocation. Which is why a 45-year-old writer is no more “superior” to a 25-year-old, than 45 years of life are “...

American psychiatrist Stephen Bergman (who writes fiction under the pen name Samuel Shem ) contributes an anecdotal piece called Five Laws ...

Telling those who aren't finalists in the MPH-Alliance Bank Short Story Competition what they already know ... I saved this link up spec...

I did everything but write in that room ... I paid bills. I printed things out. I sent faxes. I was connected to the Internet. ... The assum...