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Writing workshop: using place names in your writing

Writing workshop: using place names in your writing

When writing prose, it’s easy to get stuck on the mechanics of the story – who is speaking? Was the … More

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'On the far wall a set of gilt-framed mirrors opened out another room of glassy air. She looked carefully at the middle-aged woman sitting there: a bland half-smile that she had not known she was wearing. Strange, that it would be that person that he saw. Later, when the restaurant was full, she would forget those mirrors. Glassy and silent-still, they would seem to have fallen behind the noise and life of this room. At this hour, though, the empty restaurant appeared less real than the mirrored one.' Saturday afternoon reading of poet & novelist Lisa Gorton's novel about families and houses and small towns and inheritance. The writing demands that you slow down to appreciate each sentence as the family's secrets are revealed. #currentlyreading #bookstagram #bookish #bibliophile #books #australianfiction @giramondopublishing

Have done a lot of reading since Christmas. Here from the top, There Was Still Love by @favelparrett followed by Well Behaved Women by @incredibleramblingelimy Then we had The Sister's Song by @louisejallan & Remembrance of Things Past (am about 150 pages in, it's a 1000-page book and there are two more so that one may be on the #tbr pile for a while). I then veered into some Iris Murdoch - her husband's lovely memoir of their life together and The Italian Girl, followed by a reread of The First Stone after seeing a post on it here, then Dustfall by Michelle Johnson, An Experiment in Love (re-read) by Hilary Mantel, and Three Women. It's been quite intense. And then this morning I got my own manuscript back which is 'almost there', I just need to delete some of my 342 uses of the word 'just' and about half my gentlys and fragiles and quite a few more things, but it's close. Will post more detailed reviews of all this gorgeous reading soon 📚 #bookish #bookstagram #bibliophile #currentlyreading #bookpile

There's a massive storm about to hit North Germany, the neighbour is cooking a very pungent fish and I am missing home so we are cheering ourselves up with a tea party featuring Earl Grey tea and @violetcakeslondon prune & spelt scones, with Well Behaved Women by @incredibleramblingelimy & a documentary on Australian wildlife providing more Perth ambience #comfortbaking #comfortfood #comfortreading #comforteating #bookstagram #bookish #bibliophile

I don't quite know how I feel about Three Women. I do love my Lady Writer knee rug my sister made me for Christmas though. #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #crochet #bibliophile

Dark pink magnolia 💕 #berlin #flowers #flowerstagram

Long January shadows at the pool in Schoneberg. If you are coming to Berlin, even in winter, bring your bathers - the indoor pools are pretty good, although lanes aren't such a priority and everyone just kind of swims along their own invisible ley line. But if you can let go of that they are a good way to burn off all the 🥨🌭 🍺 and 🌮 #berlin #visitberlin #stadtbadschöneberg

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