Know that rejection in the writing journey, post-publication included, doesn’t stop.
What should every aspiring writer do/know/try/fear/run towards? What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? I love wild women bordering on wry rabidity.Īnd Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan there is a space of objectivity between the author and text that I’ve never experienced before. The Vegetarian by Han Kang and I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé. This is a female text, born of guilt and desire, stitched to a soundtrack of nursery rhymes.” My mind holds it close, and it grows, tender and slow, while my hands perform innumerable chores. “This is a female text, composed by folding someone else's clothes. “.in the untranslatable pale space between stanzas, where I sense a female breath lingering on the stairs, still present, somehow, long after the body has hurried onwards to breathe elsewhere.” “Remember this lesson: in every page there are undrawn women, each waiting in her own particular silence.” Ní Ghríofa writes some of the most powerful words I’ve ever read: I can’t relate to the former, but I can relate to literary obsession and how my every act of creation, whether it be words or non-words, is a female text. It mediates upon motherhood and women writing throughout time. The book follows Ní Ghríofa’s journey into the life of 18th century poetess Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’an. It’s described as a “true original”, and it is. What is a book you would recommend to any woman writer?Ī Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.
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