Saturday, 15 October 2011

This blog has moved ...

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... to a column on my shiny new website at: http://www.angela-young.co.uk/column/ The website will be live from the middle of the third ...
Sunday, 6 March 2011

The rewrite, continued ...

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For various reasons (life in all its glorious unpredictability, mostly) I find myself re-rewriting my second novel. It's not an unusua...
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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Rewrites and primroses

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I've just delivered the rewritten manuscript of my second novel, WRITTEN in WATER (as it is now called) to my agent. Wish it luck, pleas...
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Sunday, 19 September 2010

Just When ... will we do something?

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Just published by the wonderful Beautiful Books , is this volume of short stories: Inspired by Kipling's Just-So Stories, the Just When ...
Thursday, 3 June 2010

Nine months later ...

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... and exactly the right amount of time since my last post, because I have just delivered the manuscript of my second novel to my agent. Th...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009

And now for a complete rewrite

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When George Plimpton of The Paris Review [pages 6-7] asked Hemingway why he rewrote so many times, he said: I do it to get the words right ...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Thursday last ...

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... on Thursday last I gave my second novel, whose working title is Hope Remains , to my agent. And now I feel oddly bereft. I have become s...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008

Not posting, but writing

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I'm working on my second novel so I won't be posting for a while (not even to MAT). I don't know how long a while is, and I won...
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008

The White Tiger wins the Man Booker

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Congratulations to Aravind Adiga whose first novel, The White T iger , won the Man Booker prize last night. Michael Portillo - chair of the...
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008

The Troubadour Cafe

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The Troubadour is, as they say on their website , a proper cafe. It's been around for years but it just gets better and better. It'...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

The Man Booker Shortlist

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So here they are: Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies Linda Grant The Clothes on ...
Sunday, 31 August 2008

SW11 Literary Festival

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I know I said I wasn't going to post for a while because I'm writing ... but I thought you might like to know that the SW11 (London)...
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Thursday, 28 August 2008

Writing, not Posting

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I am writing or, more to the point, doing this before I write. I have laid the foundations and now I'm building the trellises and the su...
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Monday, 4 August 2008

The Booker Longlist

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I'm a bit late ... it was announced on 29 July, here , but here they are: Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dre...
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Saturday, 26 July 2008

Boldness

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Sheri at One of the Best Things posted this (two quotes about writing and ideas). Which inspired me to post, in a comment, Goethe's won...
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Friday, 18 July 2008

Six Random Things ...

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... I was tagged by A Work in Progress at the beginning of May (yes, that's the beginning of May) to do this meme which I've only ju...
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Monday, 14 July 2008

BBC National Short Story Award: the winner

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Congratulations to Clare Wigfall who's just won the BBC National Short Story Award 2008 for her story The Numbers from her collection T...
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008

The BBC National Short Story Award

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The shortlist is: Richard Beard Guidelines for Measures to Cope with Disgraceful and Other Events Jane Gardam The People on Privilege Hill...
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Monday, 30 June 2008

Storytellers ... on the road

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Two storytellers, Peter Chand and Giles Abbott , have begun a storytelling journey from Avebury to London. Like itinerant monks, they will d...
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Saturday, 21 June 2008

The Reader: Philip Pullman and The Storyteller's Responsibility

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The Summer issue of The Reader is, as usual, full of wonderful things (I discovered The Reader over on dovegreyreader's blog a while a...
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Sunday, 15 June 2008

Literary fathers

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Simon at Stuck-in-a-Book has prompted this post, with his post today . He asks who our favourite literary fathers are. I commented on his p...
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Monday, 9 June 2008

South East London reading

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I'll be talking about and reading from Speaking of Love tonight at Penge Library in south east London. It's part of The Blurb , Bro...
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Thursday, 5 June 2008

Rose Tremain wins Orange ... HURRAH!

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One hundred years ago a great friend told me about Rose Tremain's short stories, and since then I haven't stopped reading her work. ...
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Saturday, 31 May 2008

Favourite authors, at a moment's notice ...

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Simon at Stuck-in-a-Book tagged me for this meme, which began on Heather's site , Errant Thoughts. Thank you , Simon ... . 1. Who’s your...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Foot Planning

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In the poem called 'Words' for Lucy in Don't Let them Tell you How to Grieve , there are these lines: one foot in front of the ...
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Don't Let Them Tell You How To Grieve

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I read about this extraordinarily beautiful, touching, poignant, funny, sad, life-affirming, illuminating, comforting and grief-understandi...
Thursday, 8 May 2008

Lost in Translation ... ?

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I found a clever little widget over at Bookersatz which translates your blog for you. It's called Altavista Babelfish Translator and yo...
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Monday, 5 May 2008

Research, and fiction

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It is an extraordinary thing (although obvious I'm sure to all except me) the way that research informs fiction and changes its directio...
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Saturday, 26 April 2008

Planning a novel ...

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... is a strange and frustrating business, despite my colleague's beautiful vine and wire analogy . My heart gives a little leap of exci...
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Thursday, 24 April 2008

As easy as 123

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Norm at normblog has tagged me for this ... and because I've never been tagged before (I'm so easily flattered) and because my near...
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Monday, 21 April 2008

Telling ourselves into being

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I found this: We tell ourselves into being, don't we?... I think that is one of the great reasons for stories. I mean, we are the storyt...