One way to deal with fears we might have concerning the time of Corona virus, is to go the whole hog and imagine the worst case scenario - and then, write your novel - if you live long enough to write it. I would start my novel in 2025 and... Read more →
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May 2020
05/27/2020
05/26/2020
The novel in isolation
But let's be clear at the outset; isolation and solitude are not the same thing. Solitude is something that many people might seek in order to think or to write or to just get away from it all; but isolation is a mental state of "aloneness" and, I would add,... Read more →
05/25/2020
From the old world to the new
Who are these people, socially distanced but fretting their presence upon the Zoom screen, acting out our realities, throwing them back to us via YouTube and then - disappearing in the unheard applause and a pinprick of zooming light on a computer screen? Who are these people? On the first... Read more →
05/19/2020
Shoes - tailor made for describing character
Do you know when shoemakers decided it might be a nice idea to make a shoe to fit the right foot and a match it with a shoe on the left foot? Do you know when men's shoes and women's shoes began to differ from one another in style, colour... Read more →
05/15/2020
Pouring out the heart
Putting your thoughts into words is difficult, especially since we humans do not usually think in words. The smell of wood smoke, or of grass, for example, can be so...well...what exactly? "Evocative" is a word that comes to mind but evocative of what and why does it evoke this "what"... Read more →
05/14/2020
Is that all there is?
Do you know this song? The link is below if you want to listen to it. "Then I fell in love, head over heels in love, with the most wonderful girl in the world We would take long walks by the river or just sit for hours gazing into each... Read more →
05/13/2020
Creativity never dies. Using Corona as inspiration
The May edition of the New Yorker offers a review of Richard Nelson’s new play, “What Do We Need to Talk About?” The play is performed on "Zoom" and the first performance was streamed on YouTube at the end of April. The play concerns a group of middle-aged siblings who... Read more →
05/12/2020
Corona and passion go together like bathtubs and toasters
Relationships will always be a source of inspiration for writers. The fictional world a writer creates would simply fall apart without the problems and joys that relationships give to that world. Further, relationships offer the writer timeless themes to explore, for example: jealousy, love, unrequited love, hate and passion. So... Read more →
Corona and passion go together like bathtubs and toasters
Relationships will always be a source of inspiration for writers. The fictional world a writer creates would simply fall apart without the problems and joys that relationships give to that world. Further, relationships offer the writer timeless themes to explore, for example: jealousy, love, unrequited love, hate and passion. So... Read more →
05/06/2020
Corona, movement and the lure of the train
There is no question that the enforced immobility that Covid-19 has imposed upon us all has set my mind travelling to earlier days of movement, and being in motion makes me feel alive, although "alive" might not be the right word and the more precise word could well be "rejuvenated."... Read more →
