Sophie is a writer who struggles with all the usual things: motivation, procrastination, self-doubt. She’s also a yoga teacher.
Sophie writes all sorts of things — fiction and non-fiction; writing for the page and writing for the screen, radio or stage. Just about the only thing she doesn’t attempt is poetry (which is probably for the best, if her teenage ventures in the form are anything to go by).
She likes rain, umbrellas, hot cups of tea and elephants. She also likes to cook and eat, and play around on her yoga mat. She dislikes it when people are mean to her (man-sized) little brothers.
In February of this year, she appeared on a panel at Format Festival’s Academy of Words in Adelaide; and in May she hosted a TwitterFEST discussion on writing and physical health as part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival‘s EWFDigital program.
Sophie is currently working on a non-fiction book about food culture.
Have you read Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, ‘A Moveable Feast’? Set in Paris in the 1920s, it describes his years as a struggling young writer, living and working among other American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s a beautifully written observation of his early life. I hope it feeds your love of writing.
I haven’t, no. But it sounds like I should! Thanks for the tip.