Tuesday, July 27, 2010
It’s not often I talk about work on this blog but this week I interviewed Open University honorary graduate Zoe Wicomb. She’s a published author and teacher of creative writing so it was impossible not to ask her about her writing. Fine by me - as a newbie novel writer myself, her words are particularly relevant.
“What we all have to do is to press on. Writing is an act of faith; we have to keep doing it even when it doesn’t appear to be going in the right direction, or keep on trying when it’s not going at all… writers simply do what they can,” says Zoe. So true.
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