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Virginia Moffatt
He woke at 12 to the sound of scratching noises in the kitchen which he had to investigate. The lights went out when he entered the room, as a horde of rats ran up his legs and pushed him to the ground.
Virginia Moffatt
I think it would have to be Middle Earth. I'd want to go and challenge Gondor and Rohan on their lack of female leaders, so my first step would be to overthrow the King probably.
Virginia Moffatt
I was lucky enough to go on holiday for 3 weeks this year. I got a LOT of reading done. I read An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, All the Lives We Never Lived by Anurhada Roy, First Person by Richard Flanagan, Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers, The Diabolical Club by Stevyn Colgan, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Circe by Madeleine Miller, In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne, Melting Point by Baret Magarian, Snegurochka by Judith Heneghan. You can read my reviews here...
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Virginia Moffatt
Two things stop me from writing. When work is so busy it takes over my brain and I have no room for anything else. Or, when I've had some major life event, like a bereavement. In such circumstances, I try to use the barren time fruitfully by working out gnarly plot points, or a character's back story. Writing flash fiction is a saving grace, because I usually find that even if I can't write a word of a novel, I can often find a few hundred words of a story from somewhere.
Virginia Moffatt
Managing to do justice to the story in your head on the page. And having at least one person get it.
Virginia Moffatt
Read, read, read.
Write, write, write.
And always believe in yourself.
Write, write, write.
And always believe in yourself.
Virginia Moffatt
I've completed one novel, "Echo Hall", which I'm currently touting round agents. It's a novel about how unresolved conflict leads to further problems in future generations, both on a personal and political level. It's part Gothic, part family saga, part political history, and spans eighty years. I'm very proud of it, but it takes time to get an agent so I've also written a draft of my second "The Wave." This is a very different novel - covering twenty four hours in the lives of a random group of strangers who face an inevitable death. It's a mess at the moment, but I'm hoping to work on it this summer.
I'm also working on a script for a children's TV series and thinking about my next flash fiction collection, which I think will be about family life.
I'm also working on a script for a children's TV series and thinking about my next flash fiction collection, which I think will be about family life.
Virginia Moffatt
I have always loved reading and writing which go hand in hand for me. From an early age I wanted to be a writer, and in my early twenties wrote many short stories and two thirds of a novel. But, I lacked confidence in my writing and life (in the form of work, romance, children) kept getting in the way. Ten years ago, as my forties approached, I realised if I didn't commit to writing, it would never happen. So that's when I made the decision I was going to write come what may.
Virginia Moffatt
I have been a regular member of the Friday Flash writing community since 2010 (http://fridayflash.org/press/). Over the years I found myself writing a lot of stories about love, some dark, some light. I realised last summer that some fell into natural pairings and that together they might make a collection. I began to look at ways to write partners for stories where I hadn't already got one, and wrote some special pairs just for this book. I hope the result gives a realistic sense of love in all its pain and all its glory.
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