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Writing for different mediums — and the challenges it presents Writing for television made David Lloyd adept at working to…
Zoë Marriott speculates on what made her a writer — and why she’s happy to be ‘away with the fairies’.…
Katherine Stansfield considers how travelling by train can lead to inspiration for the writer. For Katherine Stansfield, travelling by train…
Christina Koning finally gets to visit a city she’s come to know through the pages of a book. Visiting Dublin…
Isabel Ashdown on the advantages for a writer of early experience of work.. The Saturday jobs of our youth played an important…
Gerry Cambridge considers some of the joys of writing – and receiving – letters, and says you should never throw…
Marcy Kahan considers how a film she first watched at the age of fourteen affected her choice of career. Stanley…
Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw make formidable heroes but it’s not their writing that most inspires Fraser Grace. A…
Chance can play a part in researching a book — as Rick Stroud has reason to know. Chance encounters and…
How Beatrice Colin found inspiration in a Scottish garden Research for a novel led Beatrice Colin to Argyllshire’s Benmore Gardens,…
Sally Cline describes what it’s like to live in two cities on different sides of the Atlantic. For many years,…
Writers of a mixed heritage, argues Ray French, can have an advantage when it comes to exploring cultural and racial…
