by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 29, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
If you’re working on a memoir, or any long-form prose for that matter, chances are you’ve spent a large chunk of time sitting alone in front of your keyboard or with a pen poised over your notebook. Either way, your words grow into sentences, which turn...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
On book writing coach Lisa Tener’s excellent blog I recently found her interview with novelist and writing teacher Chrystal Wilkinson about What Nonfiction Authors Can Learn From Fiction. In short, she recommends that nonfiction writers write scenes. No matter...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 21, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
A London publishing panel titled “New Skill Sets: Capabilities Publishers Don’t Have and How They’re Developing Them” has called for a new generation of book editors with a creative and collaborative approach to digital publishing. In The Role...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’ve recently discovered The Review Review, which, well, reviews the latest issues of literary journals and interviews their editors. It’s such a perfect idea I wonder why nobody thought of starting a publication like this before. It fills a need that...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
I hear regularly from people writing memoir. The majority of them want to get published. But despite the dizzying amount of information about the publishing process available online, I’m still – how shall I put it? – impressed by some of the...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 31, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
I have been reading Penelope Trunk’s blog in my Google Reader feed for a while now. (If, like me, you get overwhelmed trying to keep up with a crowd of relevant blogs and websites, I highly recommend the Reader as a time saving technique – take a tour...