Cherry Smyth – Why I Write
I use writing to figure out where I fit in: where my responsibility begins and ends, and what shape it…
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I use writing to figure out where I fit in: where my responsibility begins and ends, and what shape it…
At 17, you are Catholic-Boy’s School shy of girls and drink; don’t become a Donny-Juan.
Your idea hovers out of reach. It offers hope, and threatens despair; there’s a story here, it whispers, but are…
Those heaps of books in the living room left as if to mark my territory, with their scruffy bookmarks, torn…
I was a Betjemaniac; I wore a Larkin smile. My writing desk was Auden-esque, til Yeats became my style.
This certainly hasn’t declined since the days when I read forbidden books under the bedclothes, but you could say I’ve…
I found it so much easier to pick up the next day where I left off, to finish what I…
As a housewife, I fail; as a writer, I need bad housekeeping.
Beginning writers should write about what they suspect, what they imagine, not what they know.
Every day is a writing day, so long as I put pen to paper, even for five minutes.
What can you see as you look at the universe of your play? What structures are there? What natural features?
You’ll measure your growing fame in invites to do things for free; from publishers, organisers, students, and universities.