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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Colum McCann On Writing

Colum McCann

24th April 2017

Edited

10th December 2024

Writing advice from one of modern literature's most acclaimed authors, Colum McCann, taken from Letters To A Young Writer: Some Practical and...

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Don’t Find Your Voice – Use Your Voice

Fran Cooper

24th April 2017

Edited

16th October 2020

Debut author Fran Cooper discusses the importance of using your voice as a writer.

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Top Tips On Writing Crime Fiction

Victoria Goldman

6th April 2017

Edited

16th August 2022

Here are 10 top tips I learnt from Mark:

1. Write the book you want to read

As a writer, don’t look for gaps...

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Why A Sense Of Place Matters In Historical Fiction

Helen Irene Young

5th April 2017

Edited

16th September 2020

Setting is an anchor. It has the ability to weight a story in any given time, or place. Daphne Du Maurier saw setting (her beloved Cornwall) as...

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Books & A Baby: Three Writing Lessons Learned

Yoojin Grace Wuertz

5th April 2017

Edited

10th December 2024

Author Yoojin Grace Wuertz on the three things she took from becoming a mother and writing her first book at the same time.

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Why I Write Cross-Genre Fiction

Jess Kidd

4th April 2017

Edited

16th October 2020

Himself started with a challenge I set myself, to get down on paper the twisted Irish village that had been haunting my imagination for years. It...