Blog: Writing

I always thought I was an unambitious person. I didn’t care about building a career or making lots of money or having a big house or my own office. I didn’t care about impressing anyone or causing jealousy or getting a pat on the head. I never worried about what I was going to say at high school reunions. I went to university not to get a decent job, but just because I wasn’t sure what else to do. As…

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I would like to suggest that you devote a small chunk of your weekend to fairy tales. I do not mean sweet and magical stories with happy endings: most fairy tales do not have happy endings, they have brutally ironic endings where most of the characters end up maimed or dead. On that note, I direct you to a few of my recent fairytale-inspired writings: Storytelling is a strange little Snow White story of role reversal. Read it at Seven…

Surely I’m not the only person to see the undeniable connection between these two songs… I hope the Black-Eyed Peas are paying Flight of the Conchords some royalties.

So maybe you’re a writer, and maybe you’ve been thinking: ‘Hey, my writing could be more intellectual/less intellectual/more commercial/less commercial if I got a degree in Creative Writing – and all the lit mags love those degree kids!’ As a recent Creative Writing MLitt graduate, I present to you my list of Nine Reasons Why A Creative Writing Degree Is Freaking Sweet. I have some extra letters after my name. Obviously I don’t use actually sign things ‘Kirsty Logan, BA…

Everyone I know has two job titles: the one they get paid to do, and the one they wish they got paid to do. I’m a waitress/writer. My girlfriend is a graphic designer/musician, and my brother is a lighting tech/filmmaker. They do the former to afford the equipment and studio time to do the latter, but as a writer I don’t need to pay for electronics or locations. Writers don’t really need tools to create their art. A paper and…