26 Thursday Mar 2020
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Because we all know that writers write, they write (or try to) all the time, and have this habit of finding stories in the most awkward places, and notebooks are great stress-relief anyway, so…
Are you writing while stuck at home? Writing on as usual? Resurrecting old neglected projects? Drawing inspiration from the current events? Seeking refuge from current events in faraway times and places? Casting around for ideas? Itching to write but not quite doing it? Continue reading
10 Thursday May 2018
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Here we go: the School Play – now officially titled Faults of the Fathers, will go onstage in a couple of weeks, and we are hard at work on it. Yesterday afternoon, as I arrived at the Tiny Theatre for rehearsals, I met a friend and colleague at the door.
“How’s it going?” he asked – and I said it’s going the right kind of dreadfully for two-weeks-from-curtain-up, which is frightening to the students but quite typical, and quite true.
And last night’s rehearsals were a perfect illustration of what I mean. Let’s see… Continue reading
25 Monday Dec 2017
19 Thursday Oct 2017
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1453, carey mysteries, Diana Gabaldon, Historical fiction, historical serendipity, p. f. chisholm, Siege of Constantinople
Says Diana Gabaldon, in her introduction to P.F. Chisholm’s brilliant A Plague of Angels*:
One historical author of my acquaintance describes something she calls “historical serendipity.” This is the condition of knowing one’s period so well and so intimately that when one reaches a point in the story where it’s necessary to… (gasp) make something up, one’s fictional choices are not only historically plausible – but very often turn out to be the ex post facto honest-to-goodness truth, as well.
Did it ever happen to you? Continue reading
25 Sunday Dec 2016
08 Thursday Sep 2016
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Do you remember the insane project about Charlotte Brontë and problem kids? It was truly insane – and you’d think I should have known to run like the wind… Continue reading
09 Saturday Jul 2016
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…Now that summer’s here!
Actually, my plans are for May or June. A week or ten days strolling leisurely through Kent, visiting villages, manors, gardens and places like Scadbury – and ending, of course, with a few days in Canterbury… Continue reading
01 Friday Jan 2016
14 Saturday Nov 2015
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Robyn Saunders
17 Tuesday Mar 2015
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Couldn’t help myself. And it isn’t my fault, either: I saw the K. quote, and the conversation dawned on me – just like that.
Er… right. Enough. I think I’ll disappear for now… -ow… -ow… -ow… -ow…
♫ ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves… ♫
