Kirsten (with guest blogger Sara McQueen)
Nov 30, 20178 min read
Feel the Fear and Write it Anyway: Addressing Anxiety in Fiction
Anxiety has been a feature of several periods throughout my life, and I’m not alone. Studies report that anxiety disorders (an umbrella...
Glasgow Gallerina
Nov 6, 20174 min read
Thinking Creatively about Creativity (with a little help from Hamilton!)
To quote Hamilton – a musical I have listened to on loop to such an extent that my collie Gypsy now barks along in tune! – ‘every...
Glasgow Gallerina
Oct 20, 20174 min read
Thimbles of Bravery: Art, Animals and the Act of Creating Character
One of my favourite modern works of fiction is The Goldfinch, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Donna Tartt. With art and animals...
Glasgow Gallerina
Oct 6, 20175 min read
To Thine Own Self Be True: how autobiographical can a novel be?
‘What’s it about?’ That is the first question a person will ask when you tell them that you’re writing a novel. Of course, many writers...
Glasgow Gallerina
Sep 21, 20174 min read
Going Places
One day I’ll fly away … in last week’s blog, I wrote that a change of setting has taken place in my novel, now that my draft has finally...
Glasgow Gallerina
Sep 4, 20173 min read
The Pentimenti Project!
‘Where the story goes today is up to you’ ... I wrote this line yesterday on a sign next to my novel-in-progress notebook, sitting on a...