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Rebecca Mascull – How I Write
I am a planner. But a kind of magic happens in the writing itself, whereby plots I’ve planned veer off…
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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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Carina Rodney – In My Bottom Drawer
Who makes or invests millions on a high-seas epic about lesbian pirates written by a complete unknown? Nobody. He listened…
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Doug Johnstone – Inspiration
Iain Banks said there was a secret website called www.ideasforwriters.com; ‘You just go there and it generates ideas for you’.…
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Martin Day – Rejection
While it’s true that most writers get better at receiving negative feedback, to have too hard a skin can be…
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Ros Barber – The Writer And Technology
My desert island discs luxury would be my MacBook, a solar-powered battery and a satellite-based broadband connection. What do you…
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Alexandra Benedict – Letter To My Younger Self
You’re doing the right thing by reading everything you can. All the words you’ve consumed so far, and will do,…
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Anna Wilson – Being Genre Fluid
Then my parents got sick, and suddenly life wasn’t solely about the highs and lows of school friendships and pet…
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Paul Dodgson – Letter To My Teachers
The rich, mellifluous word-music of Dylan Thomas spills into my drab winter morning like sunshine. In that moment, I learn…
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Sara Wheeler – The Writer As Outsider
Is soIs one a writer first and a human second? Many writers have outed themselves and said so. Is something…
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Penny Boxall – How Writing Changes The Writer
I was relieved to find myself, in this hopeless longing for the inanimate, in the company of Nabokov. I find…
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Cliff Forshaw – How I Write
This impetus to make Ovid ‘new’ resulted in various narratives of bodily modification, from sex changes to the extreme body…
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Jane Borodale – Letter To My Teachers
The particular freedom and concentration of that moment has never left me. An hour in which I felt ecstatically happy:…