by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
“Publishing School”, a welcome new series in The Awl, looks at “real-world” issues related to writing and publishing a book. I like the approach of this series because articles on writing and publishing are often written in tones of end-times...
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 | Mar 16, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
This indiereader.com article is a really useful survey of published authors’ thoughts about revision and editing their own work. How encouraging to read that the bestselling Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air) regards his first drafts as “almost always...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
The Australian Literary Review has published this review of Raymond Carver’s short stories in their unedited, pre-Gordon Lish versions, which has been released under Carver’s original title, Beginnings. The article uses the new book to explore the...