The Writing Coach
Literary Consultancy and Coaching for Writers from Jacqui Lofthouse
Voula Grand has been a client of The Writing Coach since September 2010. Her first novel Honor’s Shadow is about to be published by Karnac books in July 2011. This is the first in our series of author interviews. Voula, you describe yourself as a novelist and psychologist. Are the two related? I believe they …
I’m delighted to announce the launch of the new Writing Coach website and blog. I’m Jacqui Lofthouse, founder of The Writing Coach and in future weeks and months I’m looking forward to sharing regular updates with you. Those of you who have followed The Writing Coach since the early days (we began in 2005) will know that …
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream” – Van Gogh Recently, on a short holiday to Woodbridge, Suffolk, we took a walk in Rendlesham Forest. My husband, David, and children strode ahead of me, sure of the path. Of course, that kind of certainty is always …
On the Work of Sarah Kane. 4.48 Psychosis: it’s the title of playwright Sarah Kane’s final play, currently being staged at the Royal Court Theatre (note – this article written in May 2001) and it refers to the hour of day when mental derangement is at its most extreme. Kane completed the play only a …
This first entry from my earlier blog ‘This Stubborn World’ sees me returning from a trip to Barcelona, struggling with the tension between a serious literary life and the earnestness that I perceived in the coaching world, which I later went on to satirise in the person of James Loftus in my novel The Modigliani …
