Lesley Glaister
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Welcome to British author and novelist Lesley Glaister's website.
Here you'll find information about Lesley, her novels, her approach to writing and details about her teaching and mentoring roles.
Here you'll find information about Lesley, her novels, her approach to writing and details about her teaching and mentoring roles.
NEWS
Two weeks before Christmas I was very pleased to finish the first draft of my novel Little Egypt – not least as I’d been struggling with it since 2005. Somehow it would never move, though I had faith in the characters and situation and I abandoned it countless times though it would never quite lie down and die! After showing it to Andrew (Greig) and my friend Tracey Emerson, I’m working, with the help of their notes, on a second draft. It has been lovely spending the last few months being so absorbed, and a reminder of what writing a novel can feel like when you’re not squeezing it in round the edges of things. (Though this can work well too.) But how luxurious to spend a day in bed with tea and biscuits and a hot water bottle – and be able to count it as working!
But I’m preparing to join the big wide world again: teaching at St Andrews starts in February and in March I’m taking part in a panel discussion on teaching writing at the Write Now 2012 Conference at Strathclyde University.
But I’m preparing to join the big wide world again: teaching at St Andrews starts in February and in March I’m taking part in a panel discussion on teaching writing at the Write Now 2012 Conference at Strathclyde University.
