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#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
Unicorns and hobbits My daughter is big into unicorns. Huge. She displays academic tendencies and leanings in how she expresses her interest in the world. She likes research. She’s deeply curious. Right now, she wants to know everything there is about unicorns. She wants to read all the books, record all the data. She wants … Continue reading On unicorns, hobbits and the enchanted forest of writing The post On unicorns, hobbits and the enchanted forest of writing first appeared on Ridley ...| Ridley Writes
"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
Process or Product - What's your writing payoff type? And how could knowing that help with your writing? I was at a theatre writing lab last week and there was a group discussion about the ‘magic’ of writing. One of the participants said she felt the romance of writing was a bit over-egged. She felt| 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
Do you close the door when you write? Where do you write? What is the space like? Does it have a door? And, do you close it? Lately, I’ve started closing the door to my office when I’m writing my stories. I’ve always closed it when I’m on a coaching call or attending a virtual| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page
Over on the short story writing course last week, we were chatting about the struggle to find and maintain the time to write. And it absolutely is a struggle for lots of us lots of the time. It’s probably one of the most common coaching conversations I have with writers. Even writers who ostensibly don’t| Ridley Writes - Getting you beyond the blank page
Recently I was watching an interview of a successful television actor who knew from childhood that he wanted to spend his life performing for audiences. Another individual remarked during the conve…| Chronicles of the Scribe