Member Spotlight: Linda Gambill

Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? Books educate, entertain, and enlighten us. I aim to include a little bit of all three in my writing.

What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block? I sit down and write whether or not I feel like it, whether or not it’s going well.

What is your favorite time to write? When my husband is out of the house and I know I won’t be interrupted.

What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received and would like to impart to other writers? Never go on too long about any one thing. This is also good advice for dinner parties.

What excites you most about being a writer in today’s age? That I’m alive to write in it.

Linda Gambill’s The Geography of Desire: A Memoir of West Africa is out now with Apprentice House.