Archive for May, 2007
News from home
Things don’t seem to be settling down in Islamabad, which is worrying. Ilhan’s latest article in Dawn is about the writ of the state and its lack of authority not just in Pakistan but in the Subcontinent in general, since our history at least is shared and we all seem to be happy to accompany [...]
Workshopping
Workshopping is probably one of the most valuable things you get from a course in creative writing. Most writers will eventually show their work to someone before they set off on the tortuous path to publication, and some will get genuinely good feedback from readers, but there’s nothing quite like having a room full of [...]
Stuck
I dislike middles intensely. I have an idea, I have images, I have symbols, I have a story and I have research to back them all up. I also have a beginning and an ending. All I’m missing is about, oh, 135 lines of middle.
Which really isn’t that much to come up with when [...]