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 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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 29, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
This question was the topic of one of the final sessions of the PEN World Voices writers’ festival. I took the subway into Manhattan and found one of the few remaining seats at the Instituto Cervantes – a place I’d never heard of before, an Upper...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 24, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
As you know, I’ve been suffering from cabin-fever during these last gasps of winter (still below freezing daily, except for one glorious sunny day on Wednesday this week when it was a warm 5 degrees Celcius and everyone skipped about like it was Spring). My head...