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8th December 2020
To
share or not to share?
In any drawn-out labour, there comes the time when you need to ask: ‘How am I doing?’
Writing is not...
Developing your craft
You've been writing for a while and nearly have a full draft of a manuscript, or a collection of finished shorter pieces of work, under your belt.
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8th December 2020
It is
finished ... not
It took me six years to finish the first draft. I’d set myself a target of completing it in time for my father’...
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8th December 2020
À la
recherche du temps perdu
Ok, so call me a chutzpah merchant for stealing Proust to talk about research. We virgin authors need all...
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17th December 2020
The young writer, aged 30, attended the Writers’ & Artists’ How to Get Published Course in June 2010 and shortly afterwards met her agent,...
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8th December 2020
Writing
... and writing
I’d like to dedicate
this post to my father, Geoffrey, who died on Friday.
The plot was beginning to...
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10th December 2020
Imagine standing at the open door of a room where all is in darkness, and you can see nothing. Imagine someone flicking on the...