In this installment of 'How I Write', Royal Literary Fund writers discuss the mysterious mechanism by which stories, plays and poems are born, taking in everything from the arrival of the idea and the slog of the drafting process to the joys of editing.
In the third instalment of 'My Genre’s Status', we speak with RLF writers who struggle against being pigeonholed, and consider issues such as the way different countries categorise literature, the challenges of hybrid forms and the need to keep pushing the boundaries.
In ‘Writing vs Life: On Balance’, we talk to a number of RLF writers about the challenges of balancing writing against other aspects of their lives, how to stay grounded, and whether it’s ok for artists to be selfish.
Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about internal monologues, making the leap into writing comedy, thinking as an important aspect of working and the act of writing as achieving a balance between ‘crippling self-doubt and alarming chutzpah’.