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I'm not trying to write (apart from this blog post this morning!) but there are things I do want to achieve, and I do seem to put up...
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Developing your idea
If you have an idea for a story in mind and have begun fleshing it out then the developing your idea section of the site is for you. Browse our collection of articles full of advice and things to consider as your get started writing your book.
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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...
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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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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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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...