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Morgen Witzel – My Reading Habits
Like a lot of writers when I read something I enjoy, part of my mind is also deconstructing it. My…
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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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Michael Bird – How I Write
The writing usually begins with an intuition of structure and rhythm, rather than the words themselves. The writing usually begins…
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Linda Buckley Archer – Writer’s Block
You have to trust that the words will come. You must ignore the devil on your shoulder that insists that…
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The Story Of Ourselves
Miranda France on why we need stories to explain our experience. As a writer of non-fiction and memoir, Miranda France…
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Rachel Bentham – Letter To My Younger Self
There will be a lot to cope with. If you knew how much you might jump off the windowsill, but…
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Emylia Hall – Why I Write
That winter in France I looked at the world around me with wonder; much like snowboarding, writing is about freedom…
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Ian Thomson
Ian Thomson speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about selfishness, Englishness and discomfort in one’s skin. Ian Thomson speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi…
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Jon Mayhew – Writer’s Block
Freelancers can’t sit and wait; they have to create, or starve. But the mechanics of writing are difficult. Freelancers can’t…
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Maria McCann – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I have a fatal tendency to just open a fresh page and go; interesting things happen that way but you…
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Rhiannon Tise – How I Write
Draft two is actually known to the world as draft one. It’s the draft that my agent or my producer…
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Lost (And Gained) In Translation
Amanda Dalton on adapting work for radio and theatre. Amanda Dalton describes some of the challenges of writing dramatizations of…
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Laura Beatty – How I Write
I don’t know how these words arrive, or where they arrive from, but they are vividly themselves. I don’t know…