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Quite often I’ve dropped the project altogether and gone onto something else, in a different medium. Turning my back on…
I’d love to rewrite Barnaby Rudge. Principally, to do justice to the most interesting and unusual character in the book…
My father was a mining engineer, and although our house looked out onto fields, not colliery wheels, I’ve enjoyed writing…
Although you can imagine the Saffron Hill rookery that Oliver Twist was spirited away to by the Artful Dodger, the…
Vitali Vitaliev considers the joys and challenges experienced by bilingual authors and revisits his childhood to remember his first teacher…
When I switched from adult fiction to YA, I was suddenly and acutely more aware of my readers than I…
Don’t worry about computers, quiet offices, special chairs. Your two most crucial writing tools are a ukulele and an old…
Bethan Roberts explores the processes by which truth transmutes into fiction, and Lawrence Sail considers the balance between recognition and…
Out of the blue, my husband phoned me at work to advise me that publisher had called, and wanted to…
Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer is premised on the idea that the writer is essentially two people: the artist child…
I thought I was writing history, a novel for teenagers that told the story of British involvement in the Spanish…
Amber Lee Dodd shares how the move to a new city impacted her writing, inspiring her to make braver creative…
