The Latest From Sophie Masson
You sometimes hear writers say they never read the work of other authors. Underlying this is a deeper fear: that you may discover that those other writers' books are actually vastly better than yours, leading to a major paralysis in imagination and the feeling that as they've said it all anyway, why bother?
Nov 23 2009
4 mins
Writers are professional stickybeaks, eyes on stalks, ears flapping, ever on the look-out for the telling vignette, the odd detail, the weird seed that might one day flourish into a full-grown literary plant.
Oct 12 2009
5 mins
In a society, now or in the past, where belief […]
Oct 01 2009
11 mins
Children and teenagers are honest. If they aren’t hooked into your book in the first couple of pages, they will simply close it. It doesn’t matter how many prizes its won, how well regarded you are by the literary world, they simply don’t care if your book doesn’t grab them.
Aug 31 2009
4 mins
The other day someone asked me the question every writer […]
Jan 01 2009
7 mins
Tyrants create their own twisted reality, and force their people […]
Nov 01 2008
30 mins
THERE’S A YELLOWING clipping in my scrapbook showing a scene […]
Jul 01 2008
15 mins