Ask the Author: Anne Goodwin
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Anne Goodwin
I’m not exactly sure as the development felt like a very muddy process! But I can identify three areas of experience that fed into this novel: the exceedingly long time it took me to make sense of my own painful adolescence; a newspaper report about a middle-aged woman, a high-achieving academic, who had died of anorexia nervosa without any of her colleagues or family being aware of her condition; discovering, halfway through its validity and after travelling to about a dozen different countries, that my passport had the letter M in the box for sex.
Anne Goodwin
With each draft of Sugar and Snails, I thought it was finished, so I ended up writing another novel almost concurrently. Underneath is about a man who keeps a woman imprisoned in his cellar. I want to take another close look at it before I hand it over, applying what I’ve learnt through working closely with an editor on Sugar and Snails.
Anne Goodwin
Don't even start if there's anything else you'd rather do – the journey to publication is long and arduous and, once you embark on it, you need to be prepared for the long haul.
Anne Goodwin
People say you have only one life but, as a writer, we can live several without leaving the house. Not only that, we can constantly contradict ourselves, explore alternate ways of being – a bit like an adolescent trying different personas before they settle on their adult selves … which just happens to be one of the themes of my novel, Sugar and Snails, which I wrote about in a guest post here: https://broccoliaddict.wordpress.com/...
Anne Goodwin
When I first started writing, I was dismissive of writer’s block. I saw it as a pretentious term for what ordinary mortals experienced as anything along the continuum from a bit fed up to clinical depression. Until I started hating my novel …
Read more about my thoughts on writer's block in my guest post on This Itch of Writing http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitc...
Read more about my thoughts on writer's block in my guest post on This Itch of Writing http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitc...
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