Lucie Whitehouse, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/luciewhitehouse/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:15:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Ha, Said Writing https://booksbywomen.org/ha-said-writing/ https://booksbywomen.org/ha-said-writing/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:22:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29283 by Lucie Whitehouse As the mother of a six-year-old, I spend a fair amount of time these days extolling the virtues of practice (guitar, shoe-lacing) and heartily proclaiming that the more you do a thing, the easier it gets. My daughter is an enthusiastic writer and I’m grateful for many reasons, not least because I […]

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On Deadlines https://booksbywomen.org/deadlines-by-lucie-whitehouse/ https://booksbywomen.org/deadlines-by-lucie-whitehouse/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:02:13 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21167 A little over a month ago, at the end of October, I agreed to write this piece about deadlines. At that time, my editor was expecting me to deliver a draft of my new novel by Christmas. As I type, there are two and a half hours left until the end-of-November deadline for this article […]

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Five Negative Traits a Writer Needs https://booksbywomen.org/five-negative-traits-a-writer-needs-by-lucie-whitehouse/ https://booksbywomen.org/five-negative-traits-a-writer-needs-by-lucie-whitehouse/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2016 06:40:53 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15949 Some years ago now, the Bookseller printed a cartoon about the writer’s life. The first ten frames were identical: a figure hunched over a computer, alone. The eleventh showed the same figure at a signing mobbed with people, a camera-flash going off in his face, a microphone thrust under his chin. In the twelfth and […]

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