Top Writing Tip: Cook for One Person
BY FATEMEH EBRAHIMI If, like me, you’re a woman in a traditional family and society, whether you’re working or not, you must do the housework. If you’re single and lucky enough to have a sister, these duties will be divided between you. But if you’re very unlucky, your main job is to cook. Why is […]
Be Like Great Uncle Ferdy – My Writing Hero
BY TONY OSWICK When I was growing up, I wanted to be just like Great Uncle Ferdy. My mum was his only living relative and, when I was a kid, we visited him every month in his flat overlooking King’s Cross Station. Great Uncle Ferdy loved telling stories about when he’d been in the war […]
Best Writing Tip: Fail Better
BY TOM BENTLEY When I first started sending article queries out in the eighties, callow youth that I was, I sent them to all the major venues: The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Paris Review. I eagerly awaited their replies and expected a gilded chair at the Algonquin Round Table. I didn’t know that […]