Early bird special: Write the book you keep promising yourself you will
We know it can be intimidating to take the first step towards writing that book you keep promising yourself you will. You might find yourself staring at a blank page […]
Monday Motivation: It’s what our world is made of
In a little more than a month, we will be hunting for truffles in Istria during the course of our Croatian writing retreat. It’ll demand a keen sense of smell, […]
Monday Motivation: We are the word-wielders
I’m still entangled in the wilds of The Magic Mountain. I learned during a break in my hectic reading schedule that a lexical analysis of the original German version of […]
Monday Motivation: The beauty of brevity
I’m sometimes asked how long a novel should be. I begin by talking about the length of various pieces of string, but then, after a little humming and hawing say […]
Monday Motivation: Of mice and moral conundrums
We’ve just spent three days with friends in a remote village in the Klein Karoo. We were alerted to the plague of fieldmice they’re experiencing when a solitary mouse emerged […]
