Fay Weldon's comments re writing, and how not to write your novel

[Katie-Ellen]

Most if not all touched on at some time or other by @AgentPete in Pop-Ups.

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-5967569/Fay-Weldon-not-write-novel.html

Lawd gimme strength. Lawd give you strength too.

Note also, she listened to herself and not her mother.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

It's alchemy isn't it, not a recipe. There is no recipe, except that boring is the kiss of death. The reader/agent/publisher loves what the reader/agent/publisher loves. The writer's work is the craft of the coal face.

 

[Amber]

Gee. She makes it sound hard.

 

[Jay Aitch]

If we want easy, we would just read books, not write.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

I detect a certain irony in Amber's response.

I saw 'Life and Loves of a She-Devil' on the box way back, but I haven't read Fay Weldon. Something doesn't click. The problems in her stories don't click. But she's earned her chops, and maybe I ought inform myself better. So many writers...so many books...

 

[Amber]

I detect a certain irony in Amber's response.

I saw 'Life and Loves of a She-Devil' on the box way back, but I haven't read Fay Weldon. Something doesn't click. The problems in her stories don't click. But she's earned her chops, and maybe I ought inform myself better. So many writers...so many books...

I think I'm one of about two people who liked the American movie. It seemed to make fun of itself... silly and over the top. But this version looks like it takes itself too seriously. It makes me wonder if the book was just plain mean.

Her advice made sense. It only occurred to me .. this writing thing is hard, something I'm learning by messing up my own writing.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Me too. And you have to learn to do it better, but also, there's only so much advice you can and should take. It demands a pig- headedness or we'd all end up writing by numbers. Pig-headedness is not big- headedness.

 

[Allan Hunter]

Fay Weldon's article is kind of reassuring for me. Whatever else my authorial sins may be, I think I can plead not guilty to the ones she listed.

 

[G L Sheridan]

Most if not all touched on at some time or other by @AgentPete in Pop-Ups.

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-5967569/Fay-Weldon-not-write-novel.html

Lawd gimme strength. Lawd give you strength too.

Note also, she listened to herself and not her mother.

Some good advice in that article.