by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 22, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
New York, like Sydney, has been experiencing a lot of rain. The improbably cheerful weather presenter on morning television today said that it had rained 21 out of the last 23 days. Certainly the weather has not helped me get over my May flu, as my regular exercise...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 20, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
Having recently been invited into the ranks of Brooklyn’s HAWG – or Horribly Awkward Writers’ Guild – as an associate member, I feel compelled to share with other writers the Guild’s speed-writing game that I’m finding very useful...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 14, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
Most surprised to report that I’ve just sneaked into the Top 50 Australian Writing Blogs, according to Johnathan Crossfield’s blog CopyWrite. This list tracks the most popular blogs written by Australian writers about writing, and is a movable feast...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 31, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
The amusing and occasionally hilarious Joe Queenan published this essay last week in the New York Times about his fascination with books containing the word “piano” in their title. He finds them almost guaranteed to lift him out of whatever low mood he...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 26, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’m pleased to announce I have a new essay appearing in the latest issue of The Drawbridge, an equally challenging and irreverent “magazine” (presented in a broadsheet newspaper format but with much better stock), whose marvelous cover appears above....
by Virginia Lloyd | May 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
My latest jazz review: Chris Potter’s Underground at the Jazz Standard – rather late in being published here due to my blog presenting some degree of tech-resistance to my efforts to use it.