Ask the Author: Glenice Whitting
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Glenice Whitting
I'm currently reading Wendy J Dunn's amazing fourth book and Kathryn Gauci's wonderful historical fiction
Glenice Whitting
From my thirty-five year pen-friendship with an older American poet. It never ceases to amaze me how a chance meeting can change our lives. 'Something Missing' is about two women, two countries, serendipity, life and friendship
Glenice Whitting
I'm inspired by life around me. A song on the TV, being with creative people, sitting on the train watching the world go by. The list is endless
Glenice Whitting
A novel with the working title of The Well-kept Secret about two aging hairdressers and one has multiple affairs. I'm having so much fun writing this. With two published novels I've at last given myself permission to play.
Glenice Whitting
To write and keep on writing. Record your stories, blurb them down in your own voice. Later, learn the craft of writing by taking classes. That way you know the rules and why you are deliberately breaking them.
Glenice Whitting
Staying in my jamas all day playing with imaginary friends. When I'm writing I am myself. All the different roles I play of wife, mother, daughter and chef are left at my study door. Once inside I can write and know for the next hour or even two I can simply be myself. It is my salvation
Glenice Whitting
I'm always writing, even if it's jotting snippets into an exercise book. I love to people-watch and cannot resist recording squirrely character traits, unique clothing, smatterings of fascinating overheard conversation or interesting observations while on the hour long journey by train to the city. Many will never be used, however often a small incident will come to mind just when I need it most in one of my stories
Glenice Whitting
It's hard to choose just one. Maybe it is the mystery of how and why I left a well paid hairdressing job and became a poor author, or my parents' well hidden German ancestry, or how I went from VCE to Phd as a very mature aged student, or.....
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