The Aesthetic Memoir: Writing for Survival

The Aesthetic Memoir: Writing for Survival

This week I was interviewed by a journalist and asked about the process of writing Sins of My Father, and it gave me a chance to reflect on the journey of its evolution, when it started, how and what it then grew into and how in some ways it grew out of various stages...
The Aesthetic Memoir: The Power of Images

The Aesthetic Memoir: The Power of Images

I am going slightly backwards to the very start of the writing process, when in the last blog post I had progressed to characterisation. That’s because over Christmas I fell upon a more solid idea for my next book, which came to me in the form of an image. Just...