by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 15, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir
The Economist’s books blog reviews James Wolcott’s memoir of 1970s New York as the latest in a long line of first-person accounts of living in the city. There are certain precautions memoirists can take to inoculate themselves against the genre’s hazards....
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 25, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Publishing
The Guardian recently launched a series of short pieces by writers as diverse as Geoff Dyer and Kate Grenville on how to write fiction. The series, dubbed A Guardian Masterclass, includes Rachel Cusk on point of view, DPC Pierre on dialogue and Kate Mosse on plot....