http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=David+Field Writing David Field Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=338092&ca=Writing It was Christmas 2003. With the arrival of my in-laws, the season of festive strife was in full swing. I departed furtively into our small study, shut the door, and put down an ancient piece of foolscap in front of me. I have a stack of these long narrow sheets of paper from my father. I stared at t... Writing David Field Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=338093&ca=Writing I want to write about how to do deal with lack of criticism rather than ordinary straightforward criticism. The sort of stuff which starts: ‘I should prefer to read the back of a cornflakes packet or the instructions on a toilet cleaner than another word written by that author’ is simply like water... Writing David Field Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=337545&ca=Writing I want write more about style, just continuing from the last article and with next suggestion. Suggestion 7: economy of style. Think back to the old man on the barge from an earlier blog: “On a sleepy, sunny afternoon I was sitting on the banks of a canal, when a barge came chugging gently towards... Writing David Field Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=335292&ca=Writing A writer of fiction is simply a person who makes up stories. He or she is just a perfectly normal human being who has found out that they can put stories down on paper that make other people really interested, excited and amused. Who becomes a writer? In the 20th and 21st centuries, practically ever... Writing David Field Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=335294&ca=Writing The most important thing about writing is structure. You cannot just rush into a piece of writing without some feeling for the form of what you are going to write. Of course it’s a great idea to zoom off a few inspired pages, but then you do have to stop and think. Where’s the start, what’s the stor... Writing David Field Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=336502&ca=Writing In the last article, I had launched into the question of style and I want to continue on that line, picking up from where we left off at suggestion 3. Suggestion 4: Writers often use a special style – rather than just special words - in order to create an atmosphere. The feeling of oppressive autho...