by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 25, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
My memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, is now available in paperback (in Australia). It has been included in the 2009 Books Alive! campaign, which means the cover features a sticker declaring it to be “One of the 50 Books You Can’t...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut lists these rules for writing a short story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 7, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I am one of many people in the US and Australia and elsewhere who are always looking for ways to engage more people with some amazing music that doesn’t fall neatly into one musical category. We are still relying on a term called “jazz” that is often...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 2, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
In January, I tend to review the year that has just ended, and try to set a couple of realistic goals for myself for the year ahead. Perhaps my sense of reflection is sharper at this time of year because there are so many January birthdays in my family, and we...