Send your inner critic on holiday
was someone’s suggestion in a workshop when we were talking about strategies to help with writing. Excellent advice. What is my inner critic like? A scary, famous male author with tufty eyebrows and no patience who reviews fiction in a national newspaper? A twice-divorced female author who’s brought up four children on her income from criticism, wears designer clothes and lives in Islington? Now I’m writing another novel, I’ve sent them both on a year’s sabbatical to the Bahamas, where they’ll have a great time. They can argue with each other and they won’t bother me.
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