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Diana Hendry – How I Write
It’s time I admitted to myself the rather galling fact that much as I love the look of notebooks, that…
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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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Sweeping The Floor
Tidying is about making the visible invisible, writing is the opposite. Catherine O’Flynn explores the relationship between cleaning and writing.…
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Nicolette Jones – How Writing Changes The Writer
There’s a change or at least a preoccupation, not only as words are being penned or typed but also, invisibly,…
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Jon Mayhew, part 2
Jon Mayhew speaks with John Siddique about work routines, adopting a Jules Verne character and full-time writing. Jon Mayhew speaks…
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Ali Knight – The Best Advice I Ever Received
However it gets done, whatever works for each individual writer, there is only one thing that unites us all; we…
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Helen Grant – My Reading Habits
One of the great pleasures of re-reading something is that the pressure is off. You can skip the bits you…
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Words, Words, Words
Miranda France describes the close analysis required by translation. Miranda France describes the benefits of translation work for a writer:…
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Maria McCann – How I Write
There’s a wayward part of me that resists plotting and wants to just plunge in. But if I yield to…
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Location And The Writer, part 7
In Location And The Writer, we visit a multicultural corner of London, and an inadequately celebratory Birkenhead. Roopa Farooki takes…
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Anita Mason – Letter To My Younger Self
And do you think you don’t need to learn how to dissect a frog because you have discovered T. S.…
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Neil Rollinson – Writers Who Inspire Me
How does one describe a baby, or anything else for that matter; how forensically, how deeply, does one investigate? How…
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A Diary Of Retreats
A Cornish cottage, a Tuscan island, a wooded valley, Emylia Hall seeks the solitude from which her writing can spring.…