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How to write. I mean ride. No, write.
I’ve been writing There Is No Dog for almost as long as I’ve been learning to ride, and if I’d known how long either would take, I’m not sure I’d have embarked on the journeys. How often does this happen in life? If I’d known how long it would take to sort out my career [...]
Wrestling With The Angel
Every writer I know has lousy days and weeks when nothing goes right, waking up each morning to do battle with the little voice in the back of the head that shrieks “YOU’VE LOST IT!” We’re all in the same leaky boat. One of my favourite e-mails came from Hilary Mantel, to whom I wrote [...]
Riding and Writing, Part, um, 162.
OK — all of you who don’t get the whole horse thing, look away now. The rest of you may be familiar with my opinions on writing and riding and the parallels to be found therein. I’ve blathered on before about ‘throughness’ – a dressage term that describes the perfect communication of intent between rider [...]
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