#post_excerptNow is a brilliant moment to assess our writing life. How is the reality of that life matching up against our ambitions?| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page
"The writer is usually either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both." Susan Sontag This feels like one of those English lit essay questions from university. Whenever I read the quote, I always want to add the word 'Discuss'. Notwithstanding my apparent latent and hitherto inert English teacher desires,| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page
What do I mean by which writer will you apprentice yourself to? Who are your favourite writers? What stories have you read in your life that have left echoes, tattoed themselves onto your heart? These are the writers to whom you have the opportunity to become apprenticed. How exactly do we do this? The Apprentice| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page
The writer’s relationship with their phone What is your relationship with your phone like? Mine is currently sat beside me on my desk. Like a year-round elf-on-the-shelf, I always need to know where the cheeky little mite is. It distracts me and entertains me and thieves my time. It does this with my consent –| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page
Is your New Year’s Resolution to write more? New Year’s Resolutions are all considered a bit naff these days aren’t they? All the really cool people who ‘get it’ are so over setting them. And marvellous, jolly good luck I say. Each to their own. I however, have never been one for ‘getting it’ or| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page