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At the last minute, a prison officer warns me that if my questions elicit further evidence, the prisoner will be…
With every piece I read, the reasons for rejection did not just stare me in the face, they jumped up…
The final process of writing is performance. In redrafting, there are still variants you are weighing up; reading the poem…
When your father tells you how he ran home from the cinema in the Blitz, to discover his house had…
If your manuscript doesn’t reach the commissioning editor when you said it would, he or she will read one of…
They needed three additional scenes, featuring these two actors. Oh, and by the way, everyone’s already on set, and they’ll…
Ruth spotted my love of writing poems. In my final year at primary school I wrote an adventure story and…
No matter what I’m doing, I start the day with a bath. This enables me to indulge in my first…
First there were folders of paper, then square floppy discs, then round CDs, extra disc drives, and now tiny memory…
I see the City as a fascinating combination of a historical archive and a contemporary drama. I see the City…
It is quite a bizarre concept that the person who is the only reason that the audience turns up, doesn’t…
I make a nest. I commandeer one corner of the sofa, surround myself with cushions and blankets, set up my…
