I’ve written elsewhere about my habit of standing up to write, but it’s always useful to reconsider ways of working to see if they’re still effective. For the last ten years my day job has been in occupational therapy, a role which involves a bit of driving and a bit of desk work. Long-standing back…
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‘A Moveable Feast’ by Ernest Hemingway
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s reflections on his early days as a writer in Paris, meeting other writers, struggling to sell his stories and often being short of money. Firstly, the paperback I bought has a different cover. It also does not contain the ‘personal foreword by…
‘Mrs Hemingway’ by Naomi Wood
***** Beginning in the summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley move from Paris to a villa in the south of France. Spending their time drinking, swimming and playing cards they mix with a bevy of guests including Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and the seemingly ever-present Pauline (Fife) Pfeiffer. As Fife progresses from…
Standing with Hemingway
What’s that you say – you wanna stand up to write? Some years ago, I hosted a writing course called Stand Up and Write. I forget why I worded it that way, since the course was certainly not about standing up to write, however, this post is about that very activity. Ernest Hemingway apparently had…
First Drafts and Other Hurricanes
Ernest Hemingway once said, “The first draft of everything is shit.” Maybe it is, but it also depends on what you term to be a First Draft. As my approach to writing has changed a bit over the years, I no longer write and edit as I go along, but instead, simply write until I…
Stand Up and Write!
Some years ago, I hosted a writing course with the above title. I forget why I worded it this way, since the course was certainly not about standing up to write, however, this post is about that very activity – writing standing up. Ernest Hemingway famously wrote standing up. Even though he apparently had a ‘tower workroom’ which…
Colin Garrow 