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Susie Wild is a poet, writer, journalist, critic, lecturer, festival organiser and editor with 25 years of editorial experience. She is the author of poetry collections 'Windfalls' (2021) and 'Better Houses' (2017). Her debut short story collection 'The Art of Contraception' was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011. Her ebook novella 'Arrivals' was released in 2011. She edited the illustrated short story anthology 'Rarebit' for Parthian's 21st birthday. (All available via Parthian Books). She lives by a mountain in South Wales @Soozerama

Wednesday 28 August 2013

'Why does our kitchen look like it belongs to a psycho killer?'

The Novel has been taken out of the box and now covers surfaces and walls with old and new notebooks, charts and scribbles.

My day job work has been put in storage boxes and under drapes and my holiday reply is on my email. Go Away World. I'm (hopefully) Writing.

I saw this in The Paris Review today also...



On Keeping a Notebook: Part One

August 28, 2013 | by 

'Most of my childhood notebooks are lost–begun in a state of excitement but half- or quarter-filled and abandoned after a few weeks. It wasn’t until high school that I began to think about my notebooks as things that needed to be preserved. In Florida, when I took four years of notebooks outside and burned them, I thought of the act as a ritual cleansing. I was shedding my past in order to recreate myself in the present. If there wasn’t a record of it, I thought, the past no longer existed. Or rather, if there wasn’t a record of it, the past could be whatever I needed it to be; could return to a state of raw material to be molded and rearranged, refashioned into new stories, better stories, the stories I wanted to tell, and not the stories that were most accurate.'

& elsewhere I was reminded of this film, which is a lot to do with how I felt several years ago when I began writing it...



& this overheard beauty from a friend in a local park: 
And then this gem from a 5-year old who clearly pays attention to parental lectures:
"Mummy, don't lie to me. I KNOW you're on twitter. You promised this was time to play together, not to text... Now put your phone away immediately...or I shall get cross!" I heart the park.