Author Archive: Trish Nicholson
Is Focusing on Women Counter-Productive?
The gender playing field tilted even more steeply in the past. And yet, when it came to travel and exploration, women overcame the same hazardous terrain as men with equal courage, determination and skill. My only regret when researching for Passionate Travellers: Around the World on 21 Incredible Journeys in History, was that I could […]
Invisible Women In The History Of Literature
As a child, I loved to write secrets in invisible ink. When I wrote words with orange juice, they could be read only in the heat of a candle flame. And that is how it felt when looking for women writers to balance the record during my research for A Biography of Story, A Brief […]
Writers’ Workshops, or Workouts
Have you attended creative writing workshops where so much time is spent in ‘getting into groups’, trying to agree on the ‘task’, filling huge sheets of paper with glurpy scribble from a frayed marker, and listening to all the ‘feedback’ that you forgot what the exercise was supposed to achieve? The benefits from writers’ exchanging […]
Are you a Rabbit or a Mole when it comes to Writing?
As a writer, are you a Mole or a Rabbit in publishing’s shifting landscape? Every time I read a publishing blog there seems to be another change and more uncertainty. People on Twitter ask each other: What does the future hold for writers? – The answer is anybody’s guess. It’s chaotic out there: old pastures […]
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