After working my creative writing students hard for most of the weekend, I let them sit back and listen while I read them Holly Lisle’s words of wisdom on how to find your writer’s voice. If you want to appreciate her words in full, here’s the link. This section particularly resonated with me: Your job [...]
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Resistance
Posted in fiction, Revising, Writing, tagged creative writing, fiction, Holly Lisle, resistance, voice, Writing on May 30, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Tower of Babel
Posted in Books, tagged 2011 World Book Capital, Argentina, Buenos Aires on May 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
There’s a tower of 30,000 books in Buenos Aires to mark the 2011 World Book Capital: all genres, all languages, all cultures. Says the Guardian: The top may not reach unto heaven, but the Argentine artist Marta Minujin’s 25-metre tower is made of 30,000 books in languages from all over the world. Built in San [...]
Siri Hustvedt in Heidelberg
Posted in Books, Celebrity, fiction, Gender, Life in Heidelberg, Living in Germany, Reviews, tagged fiction, Heidelberg, novels, Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men on May 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Charlotte Otter in Paris* Last night I had the honour of hearing Siri Hustvedt read from and talk about the ideas that informed her new novel The Summer Without Men. Heidelberg doesn’t get many visits from major literary celebrities and Hustvedt is up there in my top five favourite authors, so despite having a husband [...]
May Madness
Posted in Creative Writing, Reading, Running, Writing, tagged novel revision, reading, Siri Hustvedt, Writing on May 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
May is turning out to be quite the month chez moi, which means my presence here at Charlotte’s Web will continue to be vague, scattered and somewhat erratic. Here, in order of importance, are three of the many things happening to me: 1. Complete novel revisions. It turns out that my main revisions are plot-related [...]
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