Tuesday 23 November 2010

Writing as Therapy: Part Two

'I feel that being morbid is a part of being a novelist. People who feel life is fragile and tenuous, that's what sends people into the writing business.'

Howard Jacobson
quoted in Writers News: January 2011 www.writersnews.co.uk

Saturday 20 November 2010

Writing as Therapy

Graham Greene wrote: "Sometimes I wonder, how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

According to Writing Magazine: December 2010 www.writingmagazine.co.uk he wrote to a daily target of 500 words and stopped as soon as that was reached. He kept up the discipline of daily writing into his early eighties.

Saturday 13 November 2010

Cough, Cough, Cough.....

........(and a son to be looked after who is the same) unfortunately means I have failed in my NaNoWri quest this year.