‘I’d be focussed when I wrote. I’d stop being self conscious. I wrote to make myself present and at the same time, to disappear; and those are the reasons I write now.’
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Lucy Flannery confesses to an out-of-control obsession with stationery, explaining that every notebook and index card has a role in her creative process and reminding us that nothing is ever really thrown away when you’re a writer.
Alexandra Benedict considers the many different modes of sensory perception (including her own intriguing experience of synaesthesia), and explores how the senses can make their way into writing.
‘I viewed myself as split in two, and yet this duality became my career, as I started translating German plays for British theatre.’
‘If my shoulder goes into spasm and I want to tense up, I try not to; I go into it. I wonder if we should treat writer’s block the same way?’