by sharon zink | Nov 23, 2016 | The Book Diner Interviews
We re-open The Book Diner this week with a bang as I invite the American poet and writing expert, Sage Cohen, to discuss her latest work, Fierce on the Page. I am a huge fan of Sage’s previous book, The Productive Writer, and I have been fortunate enough to get...
by sharon zink | Nov 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was born into a family of novel characters, so I really had no choice but to become an author. When I was five, my grandfather returned from a visit to his childhood home, the Amazon jungle, with suitcases illegally stuffed with seedlings and handed me a frail,...
by sharon zink | Nov 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m a strange girl: I have a thing about the Church Fathers. In fact, I did my Ph.D. on humanist translations of their work in the Renaissance period and how they were used to make points about contemporary culture. My former English teacher was shocked when I told...
by sharon zink | Nov 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Writing Process Blog Tour involves writers answering four questions about their creative process (funnily enough!) and Lorna Fergusson wrote a fabulous piece on her nocturnal writing habits and the perils of research at Literascribe before passing the baton to me,...
by sharon zink | Nov 21, 2016 | productivity, the hectic writer, video, writing tips
The great cellist, Gaspar Cassado, used to say to his students how: “You can’t play great music unless your heart’s been broken.” I think this is true of writing as well – look at Rilke, Raymond Carver, Alice Sebold – and, well, do...
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