Rod Duncan's Blog - Posts Tagged "lwc"
Winning an Award!
I won an award last night! It’s not the kind of thing that gets a mention in The Bookseller. But I couldn’t feel more honoured.
To explain, I need to rewind the clock to the early nineties. We’d been some years In Taiwan working on an environmental education project on behalf of the Baha’i community. Towards the end of my time there I began to write. A poem or two at first. Then a short story. Then I dived into the deep end and began to write a novel. I had no idea what I was doing. But the experience was exhilarating. I was back in the UK by the time I finished it.
One day, I spotted an article in the local paper, which said that there was an organization called Leicester Writers’ Club and that it was having an open evening on the coming Thursday. ‘I’ve written a novel,’ I thought. That means I am a writer. Perhaps I should go along...
The full article can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/gaslitempire...
To explain, I need to rewind the clock to the early nineties. We’d been some years In Taiwan working on an environmental education project on behalf of the Baha’i community. Towards the end of my time there I began to write. A poem or two at first. Then a short story. Then I dived into the deep end and began to write a novel. I had no idea what I was doing. But the experience was exhilarating. I was back in the UK by the time I finished it.
One day, I spotted an article in the local paper, which said that there was an organization called Leicester Writers’ Club and that it was having an open evening on the coming Thursday. ‘I’ve written a novel,’ I thought. That means I am a writer. Perhaps I should go along...
The full article can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/gaslitempire...
