Ben Musgrave – How I Write
I like to honour a new project by going on an adventure into it’s world. I like a sudden immersion,…
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Sheena Wilkinson – Why I Write
In Belfast I grew up not so much on the outside or the wrong side, as not having a side.…
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Mark McCrum – Letter To My Younger Self
Get a job they said. They were right. I ignored this and survived on everything from the dole to dressing…
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Miranda Miller – Why I Write
This sense of inner worlds stretching ahead of me waiting to be explored is very comforting and exciting.
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Chris Westwood – Life-changing Literature
I was a man with two brains, two separate personalities that were more often at odds with each other than…
Louise Foxcroft – Why I Write
Perhaps a more thoughtful answer is that I write from a sense of horror, so not from a love of…
Anne Wilson – Letter To My Younger Self
You are fearless, carrying your body lightly, climbing the pear tree at the end of the garden to read books…
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Rob Chapman – Why I Write
I write because I wrote. It’s pretty much all I’m fit for now. You wouldn’t want me to rewire your…
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Linda Buckley-Archer – How I Write
The birth of stories, as opposed to their shaping and structuring, is both intriguing and mysterious. The strongest ideas so…
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Donny O’Rourke – Why I Write
Family hyperbole suggests I used to speak only in rhyme, for days at a time. To precocity, sadly, attention gets…
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Christie Dickason – Letter To My Younger Self
Everything has already been said? Yes, probably, but not in the way that you would say it.
John Greening – Why I Write
If you have to ask yourself why you write, then you probably shouldn’t be doing it. In my experience the…