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Writing
... and writing
I’d like to dedicate
this post to my father, Geoffrey, who died on Friday.
The plot was beginning to...
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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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...
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8th December 2020
In the time-honoured cliché, I’d always felt a book lay within me, albeit invisibly deeply. Being made redundant and deciding to go...
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8th December 2020
Starting Out
When did you first start writing and how to did you go about starting your first novel?
I first started...
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8th December 2020
... or, to be more accurate, the next stage of the journey begins.
A publishing contract has been signed and so the first leg...
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8th December 2020
The idea being that you would then be able to attach the report to your covering letter (or begging letter as I used to think of them) to...