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Use words like Impressionists use paint; dab at the scene, use the colours and sensations to fill the reader’s head.…
Once I start writing I stay away from anything similar; the temptation to mimic someone else’s perfect prose is too…
Marcus Chown on living through a London lockdown. Marcus Chown describes the early months of the lockdown in London, and…
Growing up in a family of six children, writing was always a way to make myself heard. Even if, for…
I can’t imagine that anyone has conveyed the feeling of nostalgia better than Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead; nostalgia for youth…
Alyson Hallett speaks with Jane Draycott about artistic stones, anonymous creativity and the legacy of a secret affair. Alyson Hallett…
Why would that artist who lived many years ago, still be of interest to you today? And at the end…
A block, to me, is a stopping of sorts, a hindrance, an impediment. But the only way to overcome that…
If I’m not terrified then I’m not challenging myself sufficiently; writing is terrifying, therefore it’s worth doing. If I’m not…
Penny Hancock on discovering some previously unknown aspects of her family home. Penny Hancock describes an unforeseen benefit of months…
In fictionalising my own past it was as if I wiped out my real memories and replaced them with those…
Izzo’s special contribution to literature is known as ‘Mediterranean noir’; crime fiction which depicts a natural paradise poisoned by corruption.…
