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How Do You Do It?
David Davies on how he – and other crime writers – think up their ingenious plots. Faced with the perennial…
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Suburban Bliss
How Charles Jennings finds solace in his suburban surroundings. The suburbs have often been dismissed as dull, but for Charles…
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The Playwright And The Visual Arts
Brian McAvera describes how he came to write his series of plays on the women in Picasso’s life. When Brian…
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Losing The Freestyle Battle, Winning The Lyrical War
Jonny Wright explores how to be a rap poet To the uninitiated, there may not seem very much connection between…
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How Poetry Gets Written
How do poets cope with the blank page? Neil Rollinson offers some suggestions. All writers are familiar with the horrors…
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To Go Or Not To Go
Sue Purkiss weights up the pros and cons of going to places you’re writing about. Sue Purkiss wonders whether research…
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Islands
How Doug Johnstone’s love of islands inspired his writing. Ever since he first fell in love with all things insular,…
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On Writing
Road-menders, ice-cream vans, the pram in the hall… Andrew Sant considers familiar bugbears of the writing life, and how to…
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Arms And The Man
Roy Bainton discovers the hard way that you need hands. After an accident left him with a broken arm, Roy…
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Getting Away From It All?
On a visit to a Hebridean island, Linda Cracknell conducted experiments, using pebbles and ink, on the passage of time…
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Alone In Berlin
Christina Koning explores Berlin, with some favourite novels as her guide. On her first visit to Berlin, Christina Koning packed…
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The Challenge Of Aboriginal Art
Antony Mason offers an appreciation of Australian Aboriginal Art. Antony Mason’s first encounter with the Aboriginal art of Australia was…