Members' Work in Progress

Here we will feature Work in Progress of writing members of the extended Room to Write and Read Group - poems, short stories or an extract from their  current novel.

If you are a member of this extended group make sure to email us at writegillian48@googlmail.com 

with copy and a picture of, you, your desk, or something appropriate. Include your blog address if you have one.

Example: 

Wendy: Writing and Knowing

Writing teachers invariably tell students, ‘Write about what you know.’ That’s, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you’ve written it? Writing is knowing. E L Doctorow

Work in Progress

We finally dispose of the fact that I’m a writer and she’s never-heard-of-me-but-will-look-for-my-books-in-the-future, when the flight attendant comes with her trolley.

We have tea and – at Aurelie’s insistence – brandy. Then we sit back in our seats, assessing each other as people do. Aurelie is tall, anything between forty and sixty years old. She’s fine boned, with a delicate, intricate face. In her faintly accented English she begins to speak of her love for the English countryside and I find myself telling her about the Foxe’s house and my plan for writer’s retreat. ‘In the end,’ I say. ‘It didn’t quite come off.’

From The Art of Retreating (2012)  

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