Tag Archives: planning

Writing, not Posting

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Angela

I am writing or, more to the point, doing this before I write. I have laid the foundations and now I’m building the trellises and the supports around which the plants of my story will grow. (image found here) I … Continue reading →

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The Reader: Philip Pullman and The Storyteller’s Responsibility

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Angela

The Summer issue of The Reader is, as usual, full of wonderful things (I discovered The Reader over on dovegreyreader’s blog a while ago, thank you dovegrey). But the reason this issue (No. 30) is particularly wonderful to me is … Continue reading →

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Foot Planning

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Angela

In the poem called ‘Words’ for Lucy in Don’t Let them Tell you How to Grieve, there are these lines: one foot in front of the otherand don’t forget to breathe They are the last lines in a poem which … Continue reading →

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To plan or not to plan a novel?

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Angela

That is the question. A writing colleague and I were talking the other day about whether we should or shouldn’t plan our novels. I said I felt as I’d heard Rose Tremain say she’d felt: that if she plans, the … Continue reading →

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