Jon Mayhew – Letter To My Younger Self
This is going to sound great coming from me, but learn to say ‘no’. People will tell you that saying…
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Sue Teddern – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I’d written countless spec scripts and sent them off in the hope that someone might commission me. Marks and Gran…
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David Spencer – How Writing Changes The Writer
Our separation was a stringent period; parenting, ambient beats, no girls allowed except for my daughter. Our separation was a…
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Lucy Flannery – Writers Who Inspire Me
The precision of Wodehouse, the economy of Fitzgerald and the wild comic invention of Flann O’Brien; these then are the…
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Bethan Roberts – How I Write
Better to write rubbish than write nothing. If you’ve written some rubbish at least you can read over that rubbish…
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Shelley Harris – Letter To My Younger Self
The great thing about being a writer is that, professionally speaking, it doesn’t really matter how badly you mess up;…
Ron Butlin – Writers Who Inspire Me
When advances dwindle and rejections become legion – each more hurtful than the last – I remember McCullers, Proust, Balzac…
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Robyn Marsack – My Reading Habits
I see smokers on the subway or train preparing to smoke as soon as they can find a permitted place.…
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Helen Grant – How Writing Changes The Writer
I remember my own 21st birthday, and my wedding day, and I also have these imaginary memories of scaling the…
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Diana Evans – How I Write
It does not want to be captured. It does not want to be rectangular. It wants to live its life…
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Rob Chapman – Writers Who Inspire Me
Once you’ve subsumed your own tone to the great and the good, it’s curtains for plot development and time to…
Tania Hershman – My Reading Habits
For me one of the most important pieces of writing advice is this: read. Read everything. I made a failed…