It’s no secret that the slushpile is a repository of all that’s bad about writing – a temporary resting place for the kind of material that furnishes agents and publishers with endless smug jokes at …
Posts Tagged ‘Clinical Psychologist’
The Voices In My Head
Hearing voices – or even complete conversations – in your head has traditionally been thought of as a indicator of schizophrenia. But that’s exactly what most writers experience… an internal voice or conversation amongst imaginary …
Following Your Strangeness
It’s a vintage show tonight – an intense blend of wisdom, provocation, information and hilarification – you’ll want to listen more than once to catch everything. The title comes from our discussion about the quicksilver-like …
Susan O’Doherty
Writer and clinical psychologist Susan O’Doherty is the author of Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity. Hailing from New York, Susan specialises in helping clients discover and develop their creative …
Women Don’t Get No Respect
“There are three difficulties in authorship”, wrote the Canadian priest Charles Caleb Cotton at the end of the 18th century. “To write anything worth publishing – to find honest men to publish it – and …
May be Hazardous to Your Health
The fifty-seventh variety of LITOPIA AFTER DARK – the net’s first and foremost writers’ salon – is choc-a-bloc with fragrant surprises… and a few stinkers, too.
We mourn John Updike – the chronicler of middle-class …
A Heck of a Frankfurt
This week Litopia After Dark is delighted to welcome back Martyn Daniels, fresh from the Frankfurt Book Fair. We take full advantage of his ringside view and ask the question everyone is asking… how were …
Lipstick On A Pig
The J.K. Rowling plagiarism case, psychoanalysing the mind of the Republican voter and mad scientists… such a medley of topics can only be found on Litopia After Dark. This week, as well as deciding whether …
What’s Your Problem?
The Doctor is in! Litopia After Dark this week takes on the role of Public Service Broadcasting. The life of a writer is often lonely, exhausting and intense; trapped in a world of introspection and …
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