Miranda Miller – How Writing Changes The Writer
I don’t talk about a novel until I’m well into the first draft, and in fact have a private superstition…
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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.
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Shelley Weiner – Why I Write
Bring me your newborn idea and your raw curiosity, and I’ll give you the tools to transform it into fiction.
Lydia Syson – Letter To My Younger Self
Death, money, cooking, school assemblies, blog posts, twitter; I’d rather you went on enjoying the benign neglect which lets you…
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Lynn Knight – Why I Write
I was a schoolgirl reading my mother’s Nova, excited by the second wave of feminism which looked to the past…
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Charles Jennings – Life-changing Literature
He is too clever, really, to be an effective novelist. Essays are what he is good at; you can’t be…
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Sally Cline – The Best Advice I Ever Received
When things are going badly; don’t quit, rewrite. Always carry a notebook. Above all, be persistent, if it’s going to…
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Kevin Clarke – Writers Who Inspire Me
Everything in his plays is stripped down to it’s minimum, and yet his thematic and emotional reach is so vast.…
Amanda Swift – How I Write
Co-writing suits me because it breaks the isolation of writing alone, and it divides the writing process into manageable chunks.
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Alicia Foster – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I wish that I could say I took it on the chin, but I was rather protective and sensitive about…
John Siddique – Why I Write
A new feeling emerges, a desire to bear witness to the dignity and passion of our human lives. To write…
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Anna Reynolds – Why I Write
You see you just didn’t talk back then about your feelings; you swallowed them down and you got on with…
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David Kennedy – How I Write
There are a number of ways a poem can happen. Sometimes there are those rare occasions when the poem arrives…