Posts Tagged ‘The Night Gardener’
|Writing and Reading
Written by Drusilla on January 26th, 2013
Writing is obsessive.
I have been deep in my new book for the last too-many months, not blogging, sleeping badly, paying bills late. I am only now beginning to see how it will all come out. I never work from an outline, but I usually know what’s supposed to happen in the next twenty or thirty pages and it all ties in roughly with my vague idea of the ending. Like most people, I have a few control issues so writing can feel risky, like jumping out a plane and trusting that your parachute will open. Or the first time you hand the car keys to your son and say “remember the rules.” You just have to trust that everything you’ve done to train and teach and prepare him is going to play out right.
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Filed under Writing | Tags: Drusilla Campbell, Parade's End, reading, The Night Gardener, writing
Politics and Fiction Writing
Written by Drusilla on November 10th, 2012
I’ve been very much out of contact, I know. Beginning a blog presumes a commitment to… blog, to communicate and I haven’t been doing that. For what it’s worth, I gnash my teeth and feel guilty but I still don’t blog.
For the last couple of months I’ve been distracted by two things, distracted to the point of not being good company for myself or anyone else including my unfortunate hero. First, there is the problem of my new book, currently entitled THE NIGHT GARDENER.
Filed under Life Matters, Writing | Tags: Drusilla Campbell, Election, Fiction, Politics, The Night Gardener