Yay!
I got my massive 25-pound check today!
My first writing earnings ever :)
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Neil Gaiman on books, life & death
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.”
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Friday, 8 April 2011
If I should have a daughter...I'd want her to be like Sarah Kay
Two beautiful poems to frame a moving speech about moving past fear of yourself towards self-expression.
Sarah Kay's voice just brings you to tears, she's so full of passion
Sarah Kay's voice just brings you to tears, she's so full of passion
Friday, 1 April 2011
Globalshortstories.net competition - 2nd place
I got second place aka highly commended at a competition I entered in February :)
The story is a sort of metaphor for drugs and creativity and I was inspired both by Bruno Mars' song of the same name, Dreamtaker, and the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life.
The review makes me think they're talking about someone else, haha, but I'm so pleased.
Our highly commended writer, earning £25, comes from Paris, France, and is Deana Mundell, for Dreamtaker, of which Fiona says: “This is the stuff of nightmares and has a quirkiness which engaged me from the start. It recalled the reversal of fortunes in that classic movie ‘Nightmare Alley,’ which I saw only once when I was nine years old and yet the vivid impression of almost every scene has stayed with me ever since. The use of language is suitably economic and serves to highlight the very dark subject matter. Well done.”
http://www.globalshortstories.net/februarywinners2011.pdf
Mine's the second story.
The story is a sort of metaphor for drugs and creativity and I was inspired both by Bruno Mars' song of the same name, Dreamtaker, and the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life.
The review makes me think they're talking about someone else, haha, but I'm so pleased.
Our highly commended writer, earning £25, comes from Paris, France, and is Deana Mundell, for Dreamtaker, of which Fiona says: “This is the stuff of nightmares and has a quirkiness which engaged me from the start. It recalled the reversal of fortunes in that classic movie ‘Nightmare Alley,’ which I saw only once when I was nine years old and yet the vivid impression of almost every scene has stayed with me ever since. The use of language is suitably economic and serves to highlight the very dark subject matter. Well done.”
http://www.globalshortstories.net/februarywinners2011.pdf
Mine's the second story.
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