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Chris Westwood – Writer’s Block
In the end, my only way out of this crisis was to make Tony’s next chapter, Chapter Eighteen, a blank…
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Ann Morgan – Letter To My Readers
I can remember the woman who was moved by my depiction of bipolar disorder to seek her own diagnosis. I…
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Sue Roe – Life-changing Literature
When I read Clette my expectations changed; in barely more than a hundred pages, she conjures up a world of…
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David Spencer – Rejection
Self-expression is likely less universal to all artists; for me, it’s essential. In my best pieces, something is at stake…
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Lucy Moore – How I Write
I must not be present-centric as opposed to ethnocentric; I must try and free myself of the assumption that the…
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Geoff Hattersley – The Writing Life
Suddenly people were offering me good fees to go to Cardiff or Newcastle or Belfast and read to people who…
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Kerry Young – How Writing Changes The Writer
Over three novels I had taken a child’s misremembered and half-forgotten memories and turned them into fiction. Over three novels…
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Bethan Roberts – A Day In The Life
Open document that is Novel In Progress; re-read last paragraph, feel very tired. 10.30; check twitter. Eleven am; coffee, peg…
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Dyan Sheldon – Writers Who Inspire Me
I’d have to say that it’s the writing fraternity itself that inspires me, not the writers who are loved and…
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Lucy Flannery – Letter To My Younger Self
Start reading Wodehouse. I don’t understand why you’re holding out against the greatest humorist writer of the twentieth century. Start…
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Ros Barber – The Writing Life
The wolf must be kept from the door and there is nothing inspiring about lupine breath on the back of…
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Kathleen Jones – Rejection
I wrote a grovelingly polite letter to the editor, suggesting amendments, and then I tore up the script and started…