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Plans so detailed as to be half a book in themselves. Finishing off each day with a paragraph in capitals…
Julian Turner speaks with Amanda Whittington about metaphor, creativity and spirituality in literature and psychotherapy. Julian Turner speaks with Amanda…
Writers discuss the book they are currently reading. Esther Selsdon, Mario Petrucci, Courttia Newland, Marina Benjamin, Hugh Stoddart and Nicola…
Most often I get stuck at the ends and beginnings and of chapters. I can’t start the next chapter until…
The routes to possession of a book are many and various; you might, for example, have stolen it. The routes…
Donny O’Rourke on how Scouting led him to writing. As a keen member of a Boy Scouts troop, Donny O’Rourke…
When I simply consumed books with no aspiration to write one, every novel was a plus. It existed only to…
Ian Thomson finds resonances between Dante’s Divine Comedy and the 12-step approach. Ian Thomson reads Dante’s Divine Comedy as a…
Be outrageous! When I was your age my writing was very conventional. I wouldn’t offend anyone or express any controversial…
Novels, depending on the genre, allow the reader to bring much of their own personal life to their stories, whereas…
Sue Roe on writing about the Impressionist painters as a group. When Sue Roe decided to write a group biography…
I was writing my first novel, a convoluted, pretentious and, as it turned out, unpublishable thriller. “How do you feel…
