Comments for Meg Rosoff http://www.megrosoff.co.uk Author Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Meg Rosoff http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6695 Meg Rosoff Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:59:35 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6695 Brilliant. And yes, everyone should do one. Brilliant. And yes, everyone should do one.

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Stroppy Author http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6694 Stroppy Author Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:54:58 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6694 I think we shd all put a list of ten things on the back of every book. They can be different for each book. It will be much better than an author biog. Here are the first ten that spring to mind for my list: Swum to a land-mined island Been bitten by flying fish Invited to vote in the first democratic election in Mongolia Ridden a yak Kept a pet lobster Been mugged in Paris, threatened with murder in Chicago and chased by a psycho around Hong Kong Fed kebabs to golden eagles Driven around Bulgaria with a drug smuggler in Iron Curtain days Eaten liquorice-coated crabs (to avoid being rude) Been stung by a deadly jellyfish Hmm, mine aren't accomplishments, are they? Ooops. They're mostly narrow escapes or acts of stupidity. Maybe it's not such a good idea to put them on the back of a book... I think we shd all put a list of ten things on the back of every book. They can be different for each book. It will be much better than an author biog. Here are the first ten that spring to mind for my list:

Swum to a land-mined island
Been bitten by flying fish
Invited to vote in the first democratic election in Mongolia
Ridden a yak
Kept a pet lobster
Been mugged in Paris, threatened with murder in Chicago and chased by a psycho around Hong Kong
Fed kebabs to golden eagles
Driven around Bulgaria with a drug smuggler in Iron Curtain days
Eaten liquorice-coated crabs (to avoid being rude)
Been stung by a deadly jellyfish

Hmm, mine aren’t accomplishments, are they? Ooops. They’re mostly narrow escapes or acts of stupidity. Maybe it’s not such a good idea to put them on the back of a book…

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Meg Rosoff http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6693 Meg Rosoff Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:40:42 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6693 Ah, another of us. How lovely.....look forward to reading your list. Ah, another of us. How lovely…..look forward to reading your list.

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Kathryn Evans http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6692 Kathryn Evans Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:35:18 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6692 OMG - there is a purpose to it all! This is me Meg - The Woman Who Was So Nearly Good at So Many things...different things to you but just as gloriously bonkers - hoorah!!!! OMG – there is a purpose to it all! This is me Meg – The Woman Who Was So Nearly Good at So Many things…different things to you but just as gloriously bonkers – hoorah!!!!

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Jane McLoughlin http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6691 Jane McLoughlin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:46:50 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6691 A great post. Isn't it wonderful when our pasts come back--not to haunt us, but to reward us! A great post. Isn’t it wonderful when our pasts come back–not to haunt us, but to reward us!

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Sue Hyams http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6690 Sue Hyams Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:28:37 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6690 How I love your list! I must do one immediately though I fear it will pale in comparison. A lovely, inspiring post just when I need it! Thank you. (Now off to do something interesting) How I love your list! I must do one immediately though I fear it will pale in comparison. A lovely, inspiring post just when I need it! Thank you. (Now off to do something interesting)

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Nicky Schmidt http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6688 Nicky Schmidt Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:51:51 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6688 Wonderful, wonderful post, Meg, and there I'd been wondering what to do with all that useless but sometimes fun, sometimes interesting, sometimes mad stuff I've done in my life. I feel positively useful again! :-) xx Wonderful, wonderful post, Meg, and there I’d been wondering what to do with all that useless but sometimes fun, sometimes interesting, sometimes mad stuff I’ve done in my life. I feel positively useful again! :-) xx

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Meg Rosoff http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6687 Meg Rosoff Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:08:48 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6687 I'd love everyone to write their list -- I bet they'd all be much more riveting that we imagine. I’d love everyone to write their list — I bet they’d all be much more riveting that we imagine.

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by nicola baird http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6685 nicola baird Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:29:23 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6685 Hope it's not too ghoulish to say that will be far better than any obituary. We only get one chance at life, you have made your life a wonder-bath of curiosity, exploration and fun. Inspirational! BTW we are raising ducklings in our library (well sitting room) at the mo in a bid to get my daughters to practice the piano without realising it's graft. Hope it’s not too ghoulish to say that will be far better than any obituary. We only get one chance at life, you have made your life a wonder-bath of curiosity, exploration and fun. Inspirational! BTW we are raising ducklings in our library (well sitting room) at the mo in a bid to get my daughters to practice the piano without realising it’s graft.

]]> Comment on Everything you need to know to be a writer. by Sheryl Gwyther http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/2012/02/21/everything-you-need-to-know-to-be-a-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-6683 Sheryl Gwyther Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:19:19 +0000 http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/?p=6179#comment-6683 Wonderful, positive post, Meg. I just did a quick memory check on all the things I've done too over the past 40 years or so, and oh boy, who'd have thought! From getting tossed from a wild mare (why did I try to ride her?) while teaching kids on an Australian outback cattle station, to flying with a crazy deer-hunter in a helicopter through the New Zealand fiordland (only once, I hated the hunting bit), and a thousand things in between. I'm positive my experiences with people, of other places and life has made me a better writer. Wonderful, positive post, Meg.
I just did a quick memory check on all the things I’ve done too over the past 40 years or so, and oh boy, who’d have thought!
From getting tossed from a wild mare (why did I try to ride her?) while teaching kids on an Australian outback cattle station, to flying with a crazy deer-hunter in a helicopter through the New Zealand fiordland (only once, I hated the hunting bit), and a thousand things in between.

I’m positive my experiences with people, of other places and life has made me a better writer.

]]>