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A Writer’s Diary: Sylvia Plath
image credit 25 February 1957 Ted’s book of poems – The Hawk in the Rain – has won the first Harper’s publication contest under the 3 judges: W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender & Marianne Moore! Even...
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A Writer’s Diary: Sylvia Plath on Understanding Market
image credit 1 August 1950 It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled ‘Rain’ pour...
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A Writer’s Diary: Lord Byron on Writing
image credit 24 November 1813 I do think the mighty stir made about scribbling and scribes, by themselves and others – a sign of effeminacy, degeneracy, and weakness. Who would write, who had any...
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A Writer’s Diary: John Steinbeck
image credit 13 February 1951 It must be told that my second work day is a bust as far as getting into the writing. I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the...
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A Writer’s Diary: Virginia Woolf on Earning from Books
image credit 26 January 1930 When we made up our six months accounts, we found I had made about £3020 last year – the salary of a civil servant; a surprise to me, who was content with £200 for so...
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221B Baker Street – The Home of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated character, exists in his own right. He’s a fictional character who’s taken on a life of his own. So much so that there is a museum dedicated to him...
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A Writer’s Diary: John Steinbeck on Comfortable Space for Writing
image credit 12 February 1951 Lincoln’s Birthday. My first day of work in my new room. It is a very pleasant room and I have a drafting table to work on which I have always wanted – also a...
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A Writer’s Diary: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
image credit 4 June 1831 I wonder if I shall burn this sheet of paper like most others I have begun in the same way. To write a diary, I have thought of very often at far & near distances of...
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BristolCon 2015 – The One Day Convention
BristolCon is Bristol’s leading (and only) Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. On 27th of September, I attended it after a year’s break. It’s my “regular” convention, and it has been growing...
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Giving Time and Space to Ideas
image credit Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed...
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Merry Christmas!
image credit I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, folks! Here’s to successful writing endeavors in 2016. Keep writing. Keep going. Thank you for being here. Lots of Love, Dolly.
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Fight Like A Girl – Join the Anthology Launch Party!
This is an open invitation to all of you for a kick-ass launch party. After all, what else can you expect from an anthology with the name as kick-ass as Fight Like A Girl? So what is Fight Like A...
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Fight Like A Girl – Report from the Book Launch
What happens when a whole bunch of kick-ass women get together to launch a book about kick-ass women? Supported by awesome men who appreciate kick-ass women? Well, for one – you have a great, fun day...
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Ishmael and the Failings of Human Race
I just finished reading Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn, which was recommended to me by Nik Perring (his book Beautiful Words is truly beautiful, and a lesson in how you can say a lot of things in...
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BristolCon 2016 – Come Say Hello!
On October 29th, we will be gathering in Bristol once more for the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, BristolCon. If you’ve never been, it’s a fantastic event. Unlike most convention, it...
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Thoughts on why we read certain books at certain times
Like most book lovers, I’ve piles of unread books. I continuously keep adding to it by buying new books. Realistically, unless I retire and read full time, it seems unlikely that I will be able to read...
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BristolCon 2016 – A fabulous day with fabulous people!
On Saturday 29th, I departed my house at an ungodly hour of 6:30 am to go to Bristol. The Great Western Railway terminated the train unexpectedly at Reading (under mysterious circumstances), so...
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V. S. Naipaul on How to Be A Good Student of English Literature
V. S. Naipaul is a winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, the Booker Prize. He’s the author of House of Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and numerous other books. Between Father and Son: Family...
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Book Launch: The Dark Half of the Year (You are Invited!)
We need something to do during the cold, dreary winter days. What better than to read? Even more importantly, read stories that are set during specific winter days around the world, focusing on...
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Problem Daughters Anthology: An Interview with the Editor
I interviewed Rivqa Rafael, one of the editors of the upcoming Problem Daughters anthology. It’s an amazing, worthy project. I hope you will find this interview both interesting and useful. Please...
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