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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 19, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
A clairvoyant once told me I should be careful what I wish for. This year I wanted to start facilitating panel discussions on the writers’ festival circuit, and look what’s happened – four panels at Sydney Writers Festival in May, and five in three...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
For anyone who ever loved a typewriter. Take a look at this recitation of the sounds of 62 different typewriters made between the 1890s and 1979, which I found over at Meanjin’s blog Spiked. Yes, that’s Michael Winslow performing the astonishing sound...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
May I point you to the valuable online forum for women writers, She Writes. In just over one year, Kamy Wicoff has established a thriving community for women who write, with over 9,000 members from more than thirty countries. Since joining I’ve found the live...