Marli Roode

Bolton Live Literature

Marli — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:42:42 +0000

It’s been a quiet summer, both on the blog and on social media, while I worked on getting my second novel, Subject, Object, to some point that might, even if just for a day, be called “finished”. Plus avoided getting sunburned/bitten. But with both the manuscript and the weather cooling (the former in a proverbial …

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Self-diagnosis

Marli — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:23:46 +0000

I am trying to be funny. I am trying to be suitable for all ages. Things are not going well. Writing to a brief is, I’ve heard, a nightmare / a sign of being a sell-out or creatively bankrupt / impossible. I used to think it wasn’t all that different from writing a sestina or …

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Delete: Y/N?

Marli — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:18:03 +0000

Cleaning up the hard drive takes much longer when you try to fix old stuff, or understand it. For example, what to think about this now? What kind of story do you want? I asked. One about animals, please. My soles warmed themselves on the tops of your feet. You were always the big spoon. …

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On the Dylan Thomas Prize

Marli — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:10:06 +0000

How do you summarise the Dylan Thomas Prize Authors Week experience? I suppose there’s the admittedly-not-very-funny, untrue joke: I spent six days in Swansea and all I got was a lousy t-shirt that says “Cwtch the Bid”. There was also the reality-TV staples of surprise visitors, photo shoots, on-camera interviews and an overuse of the …

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On home

Marli — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:03:09 +0000

I’m asked every day where home is. Over the years, the question has become more difficult to answer. If home is where you were born, it’s South Africa, and if it’s where you’ve lived for the past decade, the UK. But if it’s where the heart is, to quote the cliché, it’s sometimes both, most …

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