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Mark Illis – The Perfect Place To Write
I think back to a house we were renting twenty-five years ago. I had a very small room with a…
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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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Aisha Zia – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I was a picture editor for ten years. It made me feel busy and confident, which isn’t something that comes…
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Stuart Walton – Rejection
A machine assessed my three chapters in two and a half hours, and sent best wishes for placing my work…
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Julia Crouch – The Writer And The City
The city has become a very different place. There’s no hanging about with a coffee and earwigging. Now we are…
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Sara Taylor – Writer’s Block
Overwhelmed by the pressure to write, I had ceased to do many of the things that I enjoyed. With hindsight,…
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Martyn Crucefix – The Writer And Technology
Her multitudinousness spawns my passive respect for numbers, speed, spectacle, calculation; all of which barely disguises the non-event. Her multitudinousness…
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Dyan Sheldon – Killing Your Darlings
Publishers call it editing. Writers call it killing your darlings. As if you’re drowning kittens, or choosing which of your…
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Jonathan Edwards – Writers Who Inspire Me
All of my favourite writers are Dylan Thomas. I say this because his writing is so varied. There are so…
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Linda Hoy – Loneliness And The Writer
Writing, and especially fiction, can become obsessive. A dimension no one else can reach. It can become antisocial and addictive.…
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Clare Pollard – The Writing / Life Balance
The freelance life is, in many ways, compatible with motherhood. I dropped bits of teaching, but mainly just said ‘no’…
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Amanda Mitchison – The Writer And Nature
Mark Cocker insisted that the secret to nature writing was patient, close observation; staying very still and watching very minutely.…
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Lisa Evans – Rejection
Rejection is what happens as a creative; you just have to find ways to survive it. Of course, you can…