Nicole pester
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It’s great when writing goes that way, unlike the kind of digging around that can happen when I’m away from reading for too long and everything becomes like a mush on the page in front of me.Īs well as serving this artistic function in my life, I do think this would be a pleasing anthology to hand to someone and say, ah yeah, these are all going to give you something – like a bit of a haunting, and a bit of a heartbreak and a bit of a laugh. I read these stories, definitely more than once, and then found them instantly helpful in whatever I was working on at the time. To me it’s like a direct shot of inspiration. It’s very subjective, obviously, but it’s also about what I’m doing right now – its unlikely I’ll ever stop liking these stories, but they are so recent they can only be influences on work I am still drafting.Īll of the people on this list are writers I would read anything by – people who have given me the energy to go and write something as soon as I have finished reading their work. I’ve emphasised the personal element of this personal anthology. A lot of my choices have been published (or collected) in the last eight years or so – I was going for ‘very recent’ examples of work that I find inspiring and helpful as a writer. I really hope that you get a chance to read the actual stories, and the collections or anthologies most of them appear in. Hi thanks for reading my Personal Anthology.