First Drafts

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September – first drafts and fresh starts

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ September 5, 2022 ⋅ 3 Comments

Hello and happy September! Thought it was about time I showed my face after a long break from the blog. I hope you’ve had a good summer. Thanks to the incredible generosity of friends, mine has been bookended by trips to Spain in June and now Provence, where I’m enjoying some downtime with my French … Continue reading →

Update from the Sofa

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ May 9, 2019 ⋅ Leave a comment

I hope regular readers will excuse my unscheduled absence from the Sofa these last few weeks – it’s been more chained-to-desk than lounging around for me lately but there’s lots of good stuff to update you on. Firstly, a very big thank you to everyone who voted for me in the Saboteur Awards – I … Continue reading →

Resilient Thinking and First Drafts

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ October 11, 2017 ⋅ 12 Comments

As Hemingway famously said, ‘the first draft of anything is garbage.’ (I always thought he said ‘shit’ but anyway.) And as he also famously said, ‘writing is rewriting’. Now I am not a particular fan of Hemingway nor of writing aphorisms, which I have learned to approach on a ‘pick your own’ basis, (as in … Continue reading →