by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
May I point you to the valuable online forum for women writers, She Writes. In just over one year, Kamy Wicoff has established a thriving community for women who write, with over 9,000 members from more than thirty countries. Since joining I’ve found the live...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 3, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Long time no post, but I’ve finally updated my website with the events I’m facilitating/chairing at the Sydney Writers Festival later this month. While I’m always sorry to leave New York – and never more so than this time – I am thrilled...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 17, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here’s a timely reminder for those of us scribbling away for no money, little money, or in between earning money by doing jobs we like slightly less than writing. Lapham’s Quarterly has published this subscription-teaser on their website today, revealing a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 16, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
This indiereader.com article is a really useful survey of published authors’ thoughts about revision and editing their own work. How encouraging to read that the bestselling Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air) regards his first drafts as “almost always...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
The Australian Literary Review has published this review of Raymond Carver’s short stories in their unedited, pre-Gordon Lish versions, which has been released under Carver’s original title, Beginnings. The article uses the new book to explore the...