I remember when ‘The Busy Writer’ was only yea high and now it’s nearly a year old in long trousers and smoking cigars. Have a merry and restive and safe winter all y’all..
To help November’s sales sheets, tinsel goes up in shops now in late October. Though let’s not allow a commercial decision to affect that early winter feeling.
While we take to the streets to defend Novemberiness, here is this month’s “Busy Writer”…
Ah, autumn. The season of flash floods and terrible heat – or is that all seasons now?
Anyway, here’s a picture of some pumpkins to orient yourselves, plus some excellent opportunities and ideas in October’s “Busy Writer”…
We are pretty sure it was us who first said: I need a holiday from this holiday. Which is possibly the best way of thinking about September.
Anyway, as we stumble back to a new school year, remember that you shouldn’t expect to be “refreshed” or “renewed”, all you can hope for is to be “reconvened.”
To help you get back to it, here’s September’s “Busy Writer”…
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought,” said Wallace Stevens at breakfast the other morning.
“Hmm,” we said, watching him drink the last of the coffee. “Though,” we added,”aren’t short stories also pretty good.”
And, while he was pondering that, we took a nick of the good butter he kept for himself.
A short “Busy Writer” this month – the reason for which will become apparent as you read…
