Companion Pieces

Five-ish minutes of talking, fifteen minutes of quiet working time, and five-ish minutes of summing up. I talk about my plans for this creative session, spend fifteen minutes writing something different, and then explain why I’m OK with what I wrote anyway. Including references to Elen Caldecott’s book for young people, The Short Knife , the Radiolab episode Brain Balls and the book Londinium: A B...

I talk briefly about the book I’m writing (and why I haven’t written any of it so far this year). I suggest some options for you to get a little bit of writing done even if you’ve come as unprepared to the page as I have. Then there’s 15 minutes of quiet while I write (and fervently wish that you do some form of creative work or play), and a brief summing up. The podcast I mention is Death of 1000...

Introducing Companion Pieces . I propose that I keep you company while we each do a little bit of creative work/play. For anyone who: * wants to do a creative activity, but needs company (in audio form); * is interested in the day-to-day process of writing a novel. In each Piece, I’ll talk to you for about five minutes about the work I’m about to do on writing my novel. Meanwhile, you get ready to...