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 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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 5, 2010 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Ruined-piano connoisseur Ross Bolleter plays in his garden. Courtesy World Association for Ruined Piano Studies WARPS.com Further to some comments I made on the Meanjin blog Spiked a few days ago in response to happy endings, which took the film adaptation of Cormac...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 16, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
This post was prompted by a piece by James Bradley over at City of Tongues in which he considers why he enjoys reading blogs by women more than those by men. His post alerted me to Rachel Cusk’s piece in the Guardian last weekend, “Shakespeare’s daughtersâ€, on...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 20, 2009 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
I just stumbled across this article from the LA Times about the declining sales of acoustic pianos, the rise in sales of electronic instruments and digital keyboards, and what it all might mean. According to the article, 105,000 acoustic upright and grand pianos were...