In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus Today I spent the day with a few of my fellow writers from Kinwomen. Every few months we get together to chat, write, share a meal and reflect. Today we each had different things to work on: our blogs, […]
Appointments For Adventure 9: Ad Lib Today I did a fifteen minute interview with JD from 98five FM about my writing journey and some tips for budding writers. I’m no expert, but for the last month we’ve been chatting about the writing life, the process and creativity. Usually we prepare in advance and […]
Appointments For Adventure 8: Make a Vow Yesterday I went to the wedding of the daughter of family friends. Each wedding has its own flavour, as does each couple, but each time I attend a wedding when it gets to the vows part I feel a sense of gravity. This is the real part of the […]
Appointments For Adventure 7: Paris Is Always A Good Idea This week we’ve been planning around some commitments in Europe in June. We figure, if you’ve got to go that far, why not make the most of it and extend the journey? My husband has his birthday in June and I asked him where […]
My husband, Steve is working on a new book and we spent until almost midnight last night chatting about his book. We brainstormed themes, read lots of quotes, talked about his philosophy of ‘integrity of the shot’ and a million others things that spring boarded out of the conversation. Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called […]
Appointments For Adventure 3: Travel Plans This afternoon, I had an appointment. With my husband. We had a ‘meeting’ to decide what to do when we go to Europe in June. You may ask why we haven’t worked that out already, but if you know us, you’ll know that we work on big picture and let the […]
Appointments For Adventure 2: My Nemesis Writers are notorious for writing about the flow of the muse and writers block as the antithesis of each other. I’m having a long-standing battle with my nemesis at the moment—a novel I began in Tuscany in 2010, developed at Oxford in 2013 and worked on at The Art […]
City Lights San Francisco Whenever I go to a city, I check out the independent bookstores and make a point of visiting the ones I find intriguing. City Lights Bookstore is such a destination store. I located it on Google Maps and figured out how to get there by cable car and walking. It took me […]
Each time I visit London, I make a point of exploring the Portobello Road Markets. It is one of the world’s largest antiques markets with over 1,000 dealers selling every kind of antique and collectible. The streets are crowded with visitors from all over the world who are searching one of London’s best loved landmarks for a bargain. Portobello […]
