Writers Writing About Writers Writing
...he enjoys all the comforts of a Manhattan apartment, an accommodating mistress, the bitter consolations of three expensive divorces, a coterie of excitable and loquacious friends, and a bad back...
There Is Always The Other Side…
...exposes complicated relationships between gender, race and class. She captures the ugly essence of a whole colonial history through Antoinette’s vulnerability. And by giving her a voice, Rhys creates a...
The Woman In The Window
...create voices, invent emotions, these rectangles stay empty. No bulb brightens those spaces. There is no glow from a TV or computer. If anyone is in there they must be...
Spilling Off The Page
...become more comfortable, until one session throws me completely. We are all given a piece of cardboard with a circular viewing hole; on the front it says: ‘I am looking’....
The Ten Things Required Of A Writer In Order To Write
...coming, you can see it coming, you even try to make allowances for it in some way. You’ve been making progress, the desk and the stimulants have held up well,...
Canine Companions
...could an animal be so canny, so communicative? Here was a dog who seemed almost human and yet delightfully not so. A few years later, he was fatally run over...
How I Fell In Love With My House In Lockdown
...a mud and straw combination that kept the cold in in winter and the heat in in summer: ‘walls so thick they kept a damp chill inside them whatever the...
Creative Compost
In this era of cultural cut-and-paste, we consume our stories in an ever-increasing variety of forms: the app, the computer game, the graphic novel, the audience-led drama, the compellingly viewable...
A Researcher In Humans
...other young playwrights at NT), ‘write what you want and get it on’. Though I try to balance commissions with following my nose, all my previous science-related dramas were commissioned;...
All At Sea
...titled ‘Kidd!’ We submitted it to various production companies. The usual wall of silence ensued, until Penumbra Productions, an award-winning documentary company, expressed keen interest. Penumbra’s director, ‘Naz’ Nazareth, invited...