by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 7, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here’s a story I wrote for Notebook: magazine’s January fiction special – January being, in the southern hemisphere, the height or depth of summer, depending on your appetite for heat and humidity. The story was one of six commissioned for the issue,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 2, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
In January, I tend to review the year that has just ended, and try to set a couple of realistic goals for myself for the year ahead. Perhaps my sense of reflection is sharper at this time of year because there are so many January birthdays in my family, and we...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 16, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Australians Germaine Greer, Nam Le and Kate Veitch have made it into the influential Best Books 2008 list recently issued by the Library Journal of America. This achievement is quite extraordinary given the very select company these writers are keeping – the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 15, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
An extract from my The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement appears in the January 2009 issue of Psychologies, a monthly magazine published in the UK. I might be biased, but since learning about this magazine I have been amazed at how much content there is in...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 1, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Ouch. That’s the verdict, one week after the multiple extraction of all my wisdom teeth in one literal sitting, in the chair in the Park Street rooms of my dental surgeon and his anaesthetist, who drops by on Tuesdays. “Tuesdays are extractions,” the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 16, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Working – finally – on a new project, I’ve been engrossed in a collection of cultural critic Edward Said’s writings about music. Released earlier this year, Music at the Limits spans 30 years of his reviews and articles about music. It turns...