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Caroline Smailes – The Writer And Technology
A reader might be in the mood for happily ever after. I might be in the mood for a killing…
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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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Stephanie Norgate – Writer’s Block
Had I started anything freely — a poem or a description, a riff of dialogue or rough journal entries —…
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Clare Fisher – The Perfect Place To Write
The sight of the plastic table and scratchy seats had a rather Pavlovian effect on me. I’d pull out my…
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Babs Horton – The Writing / Life Balance
I was offered a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at my local university. It was a gift. I loved my teaching…
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Philip Womack – The Festival Experience
They all had Things. Some of them sang. Some of them danced. Some of them wore funny clothes and sang…
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Sara Taylor – The Best Advice I Ever Received
What is my purpose? If my purpose is to write, then how does what I am doing in the present…
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Marcy Kahan – My Most Treasured Moments As A Writer
On the first of September I sat down at my desk and two female characters arrived. They were called Antonia…
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Martin MacInnes – The Writer And Technology
I’m suspicious of writing straight to screen. The words seem flat, floating off into an insubstantial medium. I’m suspicious of…
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Amanda Dalton – The Writer And Nature
Perhaps I turn to nature not for inspiration for writing, but for escape from it? A kind of mindfulness in…
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Mark Illis – A Day In The Life
There is no typical day. It’s various. It changes and evolves and is likely to keep doing so. This is…
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Shelley Silas – Letter To My Teachers
My secondary modern was a fantastically mixed school, with pupils from all over the world and of every religion; my…
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Marcus Chown – Writers Who Inspire Me
I read every Arthur C. Clarke book the Zodiac Bookshop had to offer. Science at school was dull, but what…