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Mark Cocker insisted that the secret to nature writing was patient, close observation; staying very still and watching very minutely.…
Rebecca Goss on her confidence-crushing experience of writers’ block and how she got over it. Rebecca Goss shares her confidence-crushing…
Rejection is what happens as a creative; you just have to find ways to survive it. Of course, you can…
A reader might be in the mood for happily ever after. I might be in the mood for a killing…
Had I started anything freely — a poem or a description, a riff of dialogue or rough journal entries —…
Lucy Jago speaks with Julia Copus about her significant ‘Three Little Things’. Lucy Jago and our host Julia Copus speak…
The sight of the plastic table and scratchy seats had a rather Pavlovian effect on me. I’d pull out my…
I was offered a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at my local university. It was a gift. I loved my teaching…
They all had Things. Some of them sang. Some of them danced. Some of them wore funny clothes and sang…
Deborah Chancellor considers how her childhood hobby informed her development as a writer. Deborah Chancellor considers the hobby of collecting…
What is my purpose? If my purpose is to write, then how does what I am doing in the present…
On the first of September I sat down at my desk and two female characters arrived. They were called Antonia…
