When you suddenly find yourself single and in your mid-thirties, you realise your general dating criteria has become elaborately complex. Rewind twenty years and my criteria was thus:-
You have a plan, it’s to write for the rest of your life. For money! Day in, day out, that’s all you’re going to do. But those bills need paying, so you write for others. It’s writing, right? But is it fun?
As you are all probably aware, Prose goes into prison each week to carry out our Letters from Prison initiative. Last week we took a very special guest in with us.
We thought we’d add something different to the cycle of Saturday blogs. You’ve had libraries, writing huts, shelfies and writer’s homes. What about what is central to them all?
We often ask the question of those we are lucky enough to cross the paths of: “why do writers write?” Today, we hear from Proser Melanie with her reasons why she does exactly that.
We have a fantastic treat for you lovely Prosers today. Prose were lucky enough to ask Literary Agent Andrew Lownie some questions about what they do at his agency; namely, how they do it, why they do it, and if there were any tips they…
Writing comes in many forms. It bears a variety of fruit, and one such juicy and tasty fruit is music. Music, in turn, takes many guises. It can be gentle, soothing and delicate. And then at the other end of the scale, it can melt your face off, pick you up, shake you…
I hate bad grammar.