Archive - Larking with Words | Lucy Nichol

How I became a published author

Last week I gave three talks about being an author and the questions that kept coming up were primarily focused around how to go from writing something…

Mar 5 •

February 2024

I can’t write to a Substack timetable…but is that actually a bad thing?

When I first started writing on this platform I was haphazard and inconsistent but highly active…there was a flurry of posts when I first joined…

Feb 18 •

January 2024

My 2024 writing adventures

Happy new year to everyone!! I’m really starting to look forward to 2024 now - despite the fact that my garden has turned into a muddy swamp (precisely…

Jan 2 •

November 2023

Farage in the jungle reminds us why creating panto baddies out of MPs is never a good idea

It’s time to change the channel

Nov 19, 2023 •

Why are there no perfume ads with models eating Hula Hoops and wearing Dr Martens?

It’s almost Christmas (give over - it’s mid November, I’m allowed to say it now) and many of us will be looking at our almost-empty perfume or…

Nov 12, 2023 •

Exclamation perfume, focus points and Sun-In hair bleach

Recognise any of these from your 1990s bedroom?

Nov 5, 2023 •

October 2023

Oranges and Lemons: A horrible short story for Halloween

With Halloween coming up, and a GIGANTIC pumpkin on my kitchen table ready to be carved into something grotesque, I thought it might be a good time to…

Oct 29, 2023 •

Behind the scenes of a literary festival

A love letter to Margate…

Oct 22, 2023 •

The long shadow of misogyny

ITV’s 7 part drama ‘The Long Shadow’ is about so much more than one man

Oct 15, 2023 •

Can authors be more chill about ‘dreadful’ reviews?

One of the hardest things about being an author is setting your work free and allowing the world to feast on it - or discard it - at its leisure. Of…

Oct 8, 2023 •

Something witchy this way comes…

Or: How women fuck with man’s plans.

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

Remind me how women are *meant* to look again?

Frightful, freakish or hidden away seem to be the only answers…

Sep 24, 2023 •

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