{"id":264,"date":"2017-08-30T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=264"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T11:16:00","slug":"meet-the-nethergate-writers-richard-gillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Nethergate Writers \u2013 Richard Gillies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to second of an occasional series of Q&As, where we will get to know a little bit more about the people who make up the Nethergate Writers.
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This time, it’s Richard Gillies.
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1. How long have you been a writer?<\/strong>
\nI only started writing seriously in my late forties, but have written on an off all my life.<\/p>\n

2. Have you had anything published?<\/strong>
\nI have not had anything published though little bits of this and that have appeared about the place.<\/p>\n

3. Do you have a writing routine?<\/strong>
\nNot recently, but I find you are at your most creative in the morning and leave the afternoon for editing.<\/p>\n

4. Who is your literary hero or heroine (real or fictional) and why?<\/strong>
\nDoctor Johnson once said to admit someone else\u2019s greatness is to admit your own littleness, so I don\u2019t have any heroes, though I admire wordsmiths like Rabbie Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett and others.<\/p>\n

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5. Do you prefer working in a particular genre?<\/strong>
\nI have had a go at most of them but find sticking to a particular genre restrictive.<\/p>\n

6. Do you have any writing ambitions?<\/strong>
\nI would like to get a book published.<\/p>\n

7. Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?<\/strong>
\nPractise.<\/p>\n

8. What are you reading at the moment?<\/strong>
\nI am reading five books at a time and making very little progress with any of them at the moment. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson; Selected Writings on Art and Literature of Charles Baudelaire translated by P.E. Charvet; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; and \u00a0finally, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to second of an occasional series of Q&As, where we will get to know a little bit more about the people who make up the Nethergate Writers. This time, it’s Richard Gillies. 1. How long have you been a writer? I only started writing seriously in my late forties, but have written on an… Read More »Meet the Nethergate Writers \u2013 Richard Gillies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}