by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 25, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
If you’re anything like me, though I hope that you’re not, the top of your internet browser is peppered with tabs, each one designating an article or blogpost I assure myself I will get around to reading as long as it stays visible while I work towards...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 22, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
For anyone wondering why there are English-speaking people who still care about such things as the Oxford comma, I offer this illustration in response: A friend sent this to me unattributed, via email. I would happily attribute its witty creator.
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 16, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
I take off my proverbial chapeau to writers who blog frequently. After spending six days editing a client’s novel, my desk is piled with books, papers, unpaid bills, notes-to-self, undone to-do lists and rough drafts of my own work-in-progress. Despite or...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 6, 2011 | Blog, Grants for writers
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day, the annual campaign of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. The Foundation is dedicated to bringing culturally appropriate books and literacy resources to Indigenous children between 0 and 11 years living in some of the most remote...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
Geoff Dyer’s latest column for the New York Times Book Review has encouraged me to come clean about my patterns of reading and book-buying. Dyer – whom Zadie Smith has called “a national treasure” for his “acute and bad-tempered”...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
A while ago I wrote my first book review for The Australian, on two books about Facebook. Although David Kirkpatrick’s corporate biography The Facebook Effect had been out for some time, Daniel Miller’s anthropological Tales From Facebook had only just...