Kirsten
- Dec 10, 2017
- 3 min
It's beginning to look a lot like ... the last blog post of 2017!
A short and sweet post this time - perfect (I hope!) for the festive season! I'd like to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who...
Kirsten (with guest blogger Sara McQueen)
- Nov 30, 2017
- 8 min
Feel the Fear and Write it Anyway: Addressing Anxiety in Fiction
Anxiety has been a feature of several periods throughout my life, and I’m not alone. Studies report that anxiety disorders (an umbrella...
Glasgow Gallerina
- Nov 6, 2017
- 4 min
Thinking Creatively about Creativity (with a little help from Hamilton!)
To quote Hamilton – a musical I have listened to on loop to such an extent that my collie Gypsy now barks along in tune! – ‘every...
Glasgow Gallerina
- Oct 20, 2017
- 4 min
Thimbles of Bravery: Art, Animals and the Act of Creating Character
One of my favourite modern works of fiction is The Goldfinch, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Donna Tartt. With art and animals...
Glasgow Gallerina
- Oct 6, 2017
- 5 min
To Thine Own Self Be True: how autobiographical can a novel be?
‘What’s it about?’ That is the first question a person will ask when you tell them that you’re writing a novel. Of course, many writers...
Glasgow Gallerina
- Sep 21, 2017
- 4 min
Going Places
One day I’ll fly away … in last week’s blog, I wrote that a change of setting has taken place in my novel, now that my draft has finally...
Glasgow Gallerina
- Sep 4, 2017
- 3 min
The Pentimenti Project!
‘Where the story goes today is up to you’ ... I wrote this line yesterday on a sign next to my novel-in-progress notebook, sitting on a...