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I mentally wander. I encourage that same delicious distractibility which makes me such a poor listener at lectures. We dream…
Hugo William’s advice is that voice when I need it. My job isn’t to get better as a writer. My…
Publication is wonderful — both euphoric and humbling. But in the days and weeks that follow a book’s release, I…
Isn’t that deadline a manifestation of yourself, your hopes, your ambitions, your drive to produce something of substance that, against…
To my parents’ credit (or detriment), they never censored anything. I loved Chuck Palahniuk’s earliest novels: Fight Club, Survivor. I…
Loneliness can take many forms. Yet the meta-loneliness, if you like – is perhaps the pain of being wrenched from…
‘Inspiration’ implies some sort of divine intervention: the gift of a thought from a capricious god. This seems unlikely. ‘Inspiration’…
Air Mail letter to my student self which has taken two months in transit: OK, so you hate being in…
I can’t write here, the chair’s too low. The room’s too cold. I haven’t got the right view. What am…
You haven’t written anything creative for six months. Maybe you should stick to expressing your creativity in the garden. No…
How will nature writing change now, along with our lives? I’ve been thinking about the Romantic concept of the sublime…
“You write about relationships. You write about love. The Romantic Novelists’ Association is a broad church, and they throw fabulous…
