On The Fifth Day of Christmas
The Writing Advice Libby Page Gave to Me…
Here we are, day five, and I really hope you have been enjoying this series and the authors you have being hearing from.
Today’s mystery author might help those of you with TBR piles already threatening to topple feel better about adding a few more books to them over the festive period.
Libby Page in the Sunday Times bestselling author of three books, The Lido, The 24-Hour Cafe, The Island Home and The Vintage Shop.
As you will read, Libby achieved all this without attending a creative writing course. It is a dilemma for aspiring writers whether a course will be advantageous to the process, all of us writers will have a different opinion on the matter.
However, whether you have attended a course or not, the serious business of sitting down, alone, with that blank page is what counts, and most importantly putting one word in front of another. As I say to the writers who I mentor, that is the only difference between them and a published author — the published author simply persevered. Libby has the same advice for you too, so let’s hear from the woman herself: