by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 4, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
OK, I suspect some of you have too much time on your hands. Otherwise how to explain the 538 unique visitors to this website in the month of May alone? That’s just under 50 of you every day. Monday is the most popular day to visit (I see that coffee on the desk...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 1, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
What a thrill to see a first read-through of a draft play by my pal Suzanne Renaud, whom I met at the playwrights’ course last year. Richard Caliban, our teacher from last year’s course, is now conducting more intensive workshops which culminate after 10...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 28, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
A quick hello from my desk – surprise – where I have been diligently working on another draft of The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement over the Memorial Day (Anzac Day equivalent) long weekend. Being my own harshest editor and critic, all I can...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 26, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Gotta love a big boozy dinner out. My old pal John Moore and I catch up every couple of months and take turns as to whose shout it is. This time it was my turn and I turned to Ama, a restaurant I’d encountered first a few weeks ago for a business meeting. On a...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 19, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
People who know me are familiar with my aversion to “hot air”, a term which I use to refer to anything that smells of hyperbole or lacks substance. My antennae are so sensitive to hot air, I was shocked to have been taken in by a steaming blast of it at...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 1, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
An arresting title for a personal essay, don’t you think? I attended a personal essay-writing workshop last week at MediaBistro headquarters at 494 Broadway (fourth-floor walk-up of course, just what I needed after a long day at Simi’s home office), and...