Blogs Posts on "The Writer's Life"

Push the Limits by Human Amusements at Hourly Rates on May 1, 2009For as long as they've been around, books have enlightened , instructed and given pleasure. Despite this, and freqently because of it, too, they have also offended and outraged in equal measure. The history of book censorship is long and colourful,...

Write Now by Human Amusements at Hourly Rates on Apr 29, 2009If you always wanted to write a novel but never quite found the time (aka motivation), you could do a lot worse than join the annual national novel writing competition at NaNoWriMo.NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month - founded ten years ago by Ch...

Lost for Words by Human Amusements at Hourly Rates on Apr 17, 2009Will Self claims to never suffer from it, Henry Roth took sixty years to overcome his, whilst John Fowles's particular manifestation saw him living out the last twenty years of his life as a virtual recluse in Lyme Regis. Whether it be real or imagin...

Shaggy Muses by Human Amusements at Hourly Rates on Apr 16, 2009This is my dog. There are many like him, but this one is mine...darn, wrong post (see A Room Of One's Own, below).Is it just a coincidence that there is a long and well documented association between writers and their dogs? True, they hardly know the...

A Room of One's Own by Human Amusements at Hourly Rates on Apr 16, 2009This is my desk. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my desk is useless. Without my desk, I am useless. I must write at my desk. I must write better than the competition...

Almost Famous by Human Amusements at Hourly Rates on Apr 15, 2009So the book has been out a fair while now and I'm still having to work for a living...who knew? But I am happy to say that I am steadily working my way up the ladder of the popular press literari. First stop was The Sun, then it was The Daily Express...