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I’ve just come back from doing an event at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival called Writer in Residence. It’s an event I’ve been thinking about a lot, quite a tricky one to prepare for. The idea is to sit in the lobby of the arts centre and plug my laptop into a huge screen above me, which projects what I write as I write it so that passers by can ‘be amazed’ at the process of writing.
There’s a fair bit of eating and drinking in my book. In an interview the other day, someone asked ‘that bit where Frank’s eating the chicken – he dips his mug into the stock – does he actually drink the chicken stock?’
This has alerted me to the fact that we all have different versions of normal or acceptable ways to eat, amongst other things. I thought that drinking chicken stock was fairly inoffensive, but apparently I am wrong.
A bookshop, Sydney
Evie: Hello, I’m an author and I wrote that book (points at book) and I was wondering…
Bookshop person: (nods encouragingly) Yes?
Evie: I was wondering if you’d like me to…do anything.
Bookshop person: Hmmm…
All this week I’ll be blogging from the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. It’s the first time I’ve been to Melbourne, my first festival, (to speak about my first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice) and the first time my partner is seeing Australia.
Evie Wyld is a young Australian bookseller, living in London. Her work has been published in Granta and in other literary magazines. She regularly visits Australia to see her family. AFTER THE FIRE, A STILL SMALL VOICE is her first novel.
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