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17th June 2025
So you’re skint and you want to be a writer? Author Nicola Garrard suggests five free steps to help your writing dreams come true.
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Writing and Editing
In this section, you’ll find relevant articles on the writing process as well as useful advice and practical tips on the process of editing your work before you think it’s ready for publication.
Article
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5th June 2026
Review this list of common manuscript tweaks you can make to tighten your prose.
Article
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9th June 2025
Sara Grant explains how to assess the concept of your novel with a big picture analysis.
Blog
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2nd December 2025
We’ve all read sentences that made us pause; not because the words moved us profoundly, but because they didn’t sit right. Recently, I read a...
Article
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8th April 2025
In this extract from Dickens The Enchanter, Peter Conrad shares some of the ways in which Charles Dickens played with language.
In 1859...
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In the third of this article series, editor Dea Parkin describes which different types of ‘editing’ an aspiring novelist can expect their work to...