Country Living For Writers - Debbie Bennett
Here's the view from my study window one crisp cold winter's day in early 2011. Looks utterly idyllic, doesn't it? This-living-in-the-country lark must be wonderful. All that fresh air, peace and quiet? Must be perfect for writing. Not really. I live in a back-to-front house. The view you see in the photograph is the front gate which leads onto a footpath that circumnavigates the village. It's really rather quaint having a footpath that mostly surrounds the village - they have the annual Pie & Peas race (really they do, you can see the route here - it attracts hundreds of runners each year) and the village Pound the Bounds , for the less-energetic. I'm sure there's a book in there somewhere, maybe an Agatha Christie murder or something. But there's no vehicle access to the front of our house and it's muddy and unlit, so the main entrance these days is at the back, at the top of a narrow single-track lane that has qualities all its own. So thi...