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Don’t worry about computers, quiet offices, special chairs. Your two most crucial writing tools are a ukulele and an old…
Out of the blue, my husband phoned me at work to advise me that publisher had called, and wanted to…
Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer is premised on the idea that the writer is essentially two people: the artist child…
I thought I was writing history, a novel for teenagers that told the story of British involvement in the Spanish…
As a writer, you’re only in control of how good the work is. None of this means I don’t feel…
It’s all very well having an idea for a novel, or a topic for a non-fiction book, but it’s folly…
Let’s see, what else is in here? Of course, the Mr Trubshaw stories! Various people still occasionally ask me, whatever…
As writers, we are all anthropologists, observing the natives and commenting on their customs. As writers, we can tap into…
Ultimately, life-writing needs to move outside the self if it is to find a place in the world; beyond the…
Now when I write, it is sporadically, erratically. I’ve largely reverted to nature; rambling detours through overgrown thickets. Now when…
I wake my partner, Dave, with coffee. He’s a writer too, but he’s not a morning person. Despite this fundamental…
The disaster of Mum’s dementia was aggravated by the death of a beloved dog, and a love affair that soured.…
