Cherry Smyth – Why I Write
I use writing to figure out where I fit in: where my responsibility begins and ends, and what shape it…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
Donny O’Rourke – Letter To My Younger Self
At 17, you are Catholic-Boy’s School shy of girls and drink; don’t become a Donny-Juan.
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Nicola Baldwin – How I Write
Your idea hovers out of reach. It offers hope, and threatens despair; there’s a story here, it whispers, but are…
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John Greening – My Reading Habits
Those heaps of books in the living room left as if to mark my territory, with their scruffy bookmarks, torn…
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Duncan Forbes – Life-changing Literature
I was a Betjemaniac; I wore a Larkin smile. My writing desk was Auden-esque, til Yeats became my style.
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Christina Koning – My Reading Habits
This certainly hasn’t declined since the days when I read forbidden books under the bedclothes, but you could say I’ve…
Chris Westwood – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I found it so much easier to pick up the next day where I left off, to finish what I…
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Christie Dickason – How Writing Changes The Writer
As a housewife, I fail; as a writer, I need bad housekeeping.
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David Kennedy – Letter To My Younger Self
Beginning writers should write about what they suspect, what they imagine, not what they know.
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Cherise Saywell – How I Write
Every day is a writing day, so long as I put pen to paper, even for five minutes.
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Ben Musgrave – The Best Advice I Ever Received
What can you see as you look at the universe of your play? What structures are there? What natural features?
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Clare Pollard – Letter To My Younger Self
You’ll measure your growing fame in invites to do things for free; from publishers, organisers, students, and universities.