"I was spending a long time in the Morecambe Bay area when I started to think about writing a novel," the author, who fitted writing around teaching and then library work, said.
You've described a typical experience for you: finishing a draft and feeling a certain disappointment, followed by an anxiety about abandoning it, and then you return to the work, creating new scenes and somehow writing around the difficulties.
This was partly because it was easier to fit writing around her responsibilities as the mother of three children, for her wildness never extended to any neglect of their welfare.
Sometimes Mr. Charlap can hark back in certain ways to Ahmad Jamal in the 1950's: in his expert manipulation of a crowd by mastering the rhetoric of beginnings, middles and ends, and in his intricate, confident bits of writing around familiar melodies.
Rice agreed to write around six new songs, but ultimately ended up writing around 90% of the show's lyrics inspired by Brayson's original lyrics.
Plutarch wrote of the sky being on fire near Naples and Silius Italicus mentioned in his epic poem Punica that Vesuvius had thundered and produced flames worthy of Mount Etna in that year, although both authors were writing around 250 years later.
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Pass the writing around, giving everyone about five to ten minutes to read each person's writing.
Amy Alward - another Canadian, who fits in writing around her role as editorial director at Puffin.
"Stylistically this is a fairly typical example of 'spring and autumn' writing … writing around the topic.
Mr. Lemelson saw what was happening in the industry and was simply writing around it.
