by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
“Publishing School”, a welcome new series in The Awl, looks at “real-world” issues related to writing and publishing a book. I like the approach of this series because articles on writing and publishing are often written in tones of end-times...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 18, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
If you’re not familiar with the Totally Hip video series by Ron Charles, the Washington Post’s fiction critic, his most recent installment is the perfect introduction. In it, New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian makes a self-deprecating cameo...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Poet Charles Simic wrote this loving paen to jazz piano bars in New York for the NYRB blog recently. His celebration song is closer to an elegy for the small piano bars that dotted the Greenwich Village of his youth. This was decades ago, when it was possible for a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 4, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
The brilliant Lorrie Moore is almost as spellbinding in her essays as she is in her fiction. Having recently turned the final page on her funny, moving, and highly intelligent novel A Gate At The Stairs, I was delighted to click upon her essay in The New York Review...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I was honoured to discover that acclaimed author, public speaker, and spiritual commentator Dr Stephanie Dowrick referred to my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, in her most recent column for The Good Weekend, the magazine supplement to the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Following my Memoir Editing workshop at the 2010 Byron Bay Writers Festival in August, I was asked to write an article about the process of writing memoir for the magazine writestuff. For those of you attempting to write a memoir, or for someone you think might be...