STAR LETTER
FALLING, NOT FAILING
For several years now I’ve been on medication that makes me unsteady on my feet. It’s caused me to fall over more times than I’d like. But it got me thinking that my falling is a metaphor for my writing. Each time I fall, I dust off my grazed knee and get up. It doesn’t matter how many times I hit the ground, I will always get up. I need to remember that when writing; no matter how many rejections I get I just dust off the laptop, and carry on writing.
KAREN MEADOWS
Desford, Leicestershire
The star letter each month earns a copy of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022, courtesy of Bloomsbury.
AN INSPIRING INDIVIDUAL
As an unpublished writer of short stories and novels I’m always thinking that one day I will post a synopsis. If I ever manage to compile one.
I read with great interest your star interview with Isabel Allende, March). She gave such interesting, creative and structural advice for building your story. She mentioned a good memory being important and the value of research. Isabel sounds like a powerful and highly creative woman. Her life experiences from childhood were surrounded by strong people. Being able to talk about escaping a dictatorship and living in exile, well, character building doesn’t come anywhere near it. The characters in her life sound perfect material for her writing. Imagine having a mother whose life spanned almost a century and who could talk about the unbelievable changes throughout the decades.
