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A comfortable chair is essential, unless one is a Woolf or a Hemingway (who wrote on their feet), or a…
Left alone with no idea, your imagination begins to work overtime. The book is dying on its feet. Generally, editors…
Carrot comes into view — another ep of latest Covid Netflix addiction. Only if you’ve done your pages. Comes as…
I sent in a physical copy of the novel rather than a Word doc., banking on the fact no-one would…
You baulk at the term ‘networking’ and think it’s somehow shabby. It’s about getting to know people. Collaboration and trust…
Seventy-four years after Dickens’ night-walk, in the year 1930, Virginia Woolf sets out from Bloomsbury to the Strand, to purchase…
If I kept the window open, my room was filled with the white noise of the sea, which could block…
I quickly found that playing to halls full of excitable children, and getting a laugh from them, was unimaginably rewarding.…
Agents and editors, producers and commissioners, say they are looking for the original writing voice. Surely the process behind it…
In my rewrite of It’s a Wonderful Life, George would be Georgia. On a cold Christmas Eve, she sits alone.…
Orkney is experiencing a cultural renaissance fuelled to a large degree by British people’s fascination with their preliterate past. I…
Surely this has been done before? The answer, invariably, is: ‘Well, yes, it has been done,’ (after all, what hasn’t?)…
