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Designing And Building A Desk
Tobias Jones on how he built his own desk. After years of making-do with desks he disliked – or which…
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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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Ray French – Writer’s Block
My agent thought the first hundred pages were the best thing I’d ever written, and wanted the rest as soon…
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Stephanie Norgate
Stephanie Norgate shares her notebook practice, and confesses to a deep fascination with the notebooks of others. Stephanie Norgate explores…
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John Harrison – Why I Write
I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while. Then I wrote…
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Morgen Witzel – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Use words like Impressionists use paint; dab at the scene, use the colours and sensations to fill the reader’s head.…
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Katherine Clements – My Reading Habits
Once I start writing I stay away from anything similar; the temptation to mimic someone else’s perfect prose is too…
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Miracle Of The Plague Year
Marcus Chown on living through a London lockdown. Marcus Chown describes the early months of the lockdown in London, and…
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Rebecca Abrams – Why I Write
Growing up in a family of six children, writing was always a way to make myself heard. Even if, for…
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Linda Buckley Archer – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I can’t imagine that anyone has conveyed the feeling of nostalgia better than Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead; nostalgia for youth…
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Alyson Hallett
Alyson Hallett speaks with Jane Draycott about artistic stones, anonymous creativity and the legacy of a secret affair. Alyson Hallett…
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Sue Roe – Letter To My Readers
Why would that artist who lived many years ago, still be of interest to you today? And at the end…
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Shelley Silas – Writer’s Block
A block, to me, is a stopping of sorts, a hindrance, an impediment. But the only way to overcome that…