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.

Linda Newbery
Article
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Keeping Up Morale
Linda Newbery
9th September 2014
Edited
10th December 2024

What’s the point of trying? Aren’t there too many books in the world already? What I’m writing is rubbish / difficult / not turning out the way I...

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Thieves of Pudding Lane
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The Importance of Research
Jonathan Eyers
5th September 2014
Edited
16th September 2020
In some ways, writing historical fiction has a lot of similarities with writing science fiction and fantasy. You get to explore a completely...
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When Mr Dog Bites
Article
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Crossing Boundaries
Brian Conaghan
29th August 2014
Edited
12th October 2020
We all have boundaries in life that we won’t cross. There are certain viewpoints that our conscious simply won’t allow to be verbalised. You know the...
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NaNoWriMo
Blog
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Calling All Writers!
Writers & Artists
27th August 2014
Edited
8th December 2020
We’re two months away from the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and we’re looking for four writers to blog about their experiences...
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