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22nd June 2021
Over the years I’ve struggled with this question, finding it impossible to judge my own work. Adept at knowing when someone else’s manuscript hits...
Autobiography, Biography and Memoir
Your book gives a narrative account of a particular part of your life, spans your whole life, or you are writing about the life of someone else. Life writing is also a wider term used to describe this genre.
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30th August 2023
An exclusive extract from Negative Capability, in which author Michèle recounts the year that followed her latest novel being rejected by her...
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An interview with Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown Up and The Sisterhood, on tips for writing non-fiction.
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1. Find your story
There’s a key difference between memoir and autobiography: Memoirs tell the story of a certain period of life – not...
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27th February 2023
Nell Stevens shares essential tips on how NOT to write a novel... For more free articles on the writing and publishing process, visit www....
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11th December 2024
'We think back through our mothers if we are women,' Virginia Woolf mused in her book-length essay A Room of One's Own. Female writers, she...