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       #WordWeavers 27 April: What one thing (no matter how expensive or impractical) would make it easier for you to write more books more easily?A cure for ME/CFS.Failing that, a house I owned and enough money to live on. As Virginia Woolf said: 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' and I think that applies to anyone. Virginia's point is that, historically, women have not had this, and this is why there is so much more male fiction in the 'canon'.
       
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       #WordWeavers 27 April cont'd: Actually, yestercay's #WritersCoffeeClub asked us to recommend a book about writing, and I didn't want to be boring as I have mentioned King's On Writing a few times in these games, so I didn't say anything, but A Room of One's Own is also a must read.Divinely written and extremely sharp, Woolf is right on the money. Like so many who were complaining about 'Women in Writing' or 'Women in SF' panels that we had so many of 15 years ago, Woolf was asked to speak>
       
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       #WordWeavers 27 April #WritersCoffeeClub 26 April cont'd: >on 'Women and fiction' and basically responded: 'What the fuck do you expect me to do with this? Those two topics are huge and you could mean anything! OK, fine, I'm going to address why this is such a fucking stupid topic: we can't know anything about how women specifically relate to fiction until women have had the same financial security and privacy that men have had for millennia and women have been denied.' obvs, less swearing>
       
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       #WordWeavers 27 April #WritersCoffeeClub 26 April cont'd: >but you can feel her anger in the biting satire of her style. The way the piece starts with the word 'But' as though she has had to interrupt a man just to answer the question that has been put to her.The same could be said for any oppressed group that has been denied the privilege of privacy and money that the DWEMs (Dead White European Males) who dominate the 'canon' have had.  It's why I spent 5 years making this cross stitch:
       
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       #WordWeavers 27 April #WritersCoffeeClub 26 April cont'd: Anyway, go read A Room of One's Own if you haven't already. It's short and powerful and out of copyright: http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/PikliNatalia/Virginia_Woolf_-_A_Room_of_Ones_Own.pdf