by snowydays | Aug 1, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Words to look at twice Avoid the sloppy use of ‘he’ or ‘she’. Observe this lamentable piece of writing: “Alice had brought her little girl Sonia with her, charming in her fur muff and little fur boots. (Who was charming? Alice or Sonia?)...
by snowydays | Aug 1, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Titles and names On thinking up titles Useful to see a novel as a fictionalised essay. It’s not just words, plot and character, it’s about something. If the title doesn’t come to you instantly and you feel adrift without one, decide what...
by snowydays | Aug 1, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Writing Tips – Introduction If you’re a would-be novelist – the kind of writer who just wants to get published, who hasn’t been to a creative writing class and has no wish to do so, preferring to plough your own lonely and...
by snowydays | Jun 21, 2016 | Families, News and Views from Fay Weldon, Society
This is an article the Daily Mail commissioned in March but didn’t run: PLAIN OR PRETTY? I started out as a plump, cheerful child. I turned into a plump, frivolous adult. Now I find myself described as an apple-cheeked, smiley old lady. I’d be happier to have been be...
by snowydays | Sep 16, 2015 | News and Views from Fay Weldon
Our friend David Hugh Prysor-Jones died last month. We miss him. Rest his soul. ‘Hugh Prysor-Jones was a brilliant journalist and consummate broadcaster across a range of BBC radio and television programmes for 20 years. But his natural home was as presenter of...
