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Tom Bullough – How I Write
I used to plan. I don’t plan now. Preconceptions are mostly impediments. The point of the process is to let…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
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Wendy Wallace – Loneliness And The Writer
Meeting and working with hundreds of students was also new; an experience by turns humbling, saddening, stimulating. Meeting and working…
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Helen Grant – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
At the end of Basil we are told that Ralph is ’emancipated from many of the habits which once enthralled…
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Sue Roe – Inspiration
Does ‘inspiration’ actually quicken your breath? Perhaps the neurologists can tell us. Does ‘inspiration’ actually quicken your breath? Perhaps the…
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Nick Caistor – Why I Write
It was there and then that my desire to be a translator sprang up. I wanted to gain access to…
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Donny O’Rourke – Marketing And Me
If the avalanche of self-promotion that overwhelms my inbox leaves me cold, why should anyone else welcome self-flattery from me?…
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Robert Hudson – Getting Published: What No One Tells You
You sweated for years over this book, but your publishers have three others coming out this week, and it can’t…
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Julia Crouch – Writer’s Block
I managed the page proofs of my latest novel, Her Husband’s Lover, as I sat at my father’s deathbed, but…
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Stephanie Norgate – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I’m more fascinated by the Rezia and Septimus love story than by Clarissa Dalloway’s privileged past. I’m more fascinated by…
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Fraser Grace – Killing Your Darlings
Somewhere out there, on the very fringes of memory, is buried the single word, ‘effluvium’. And not far from that;…
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Caroline Sanderson – Letter To My Younger Self
Swotting was highly risky in my state comprehensive, where any show of keenness was likely to be met with jibing…
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Andrew Martin – The Writer And Technology
I am a late adopter. I was the last journalist I knew who typed articles, the last who faxed rather…