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Michael Bird – Why I Write
I was slow to read but I loved books. Even now, after writing a dozen books, I still always look…
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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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Tim Ecott – My Reading Habits
The list of Important Books That I Haven’t Read is not as long as it was, but I’m now virtually…
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Jonny Wright – Writer’s Block
Procrastination can actually be vital to the writing; the key is to use procrastination as a well-earned break. Procrastination can…
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Vayu Naidu – How I Write
Suddenly, I’m shutting my eyes and plotting the distance as a story line, between the gaping dots, to shape structure.…
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Philippa Stockley – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
Georges Simenon had the breathtaking effrontery to turn one very long bar crawl, punctuated by chain-smoking stews… into that completely…
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Christina Hopkinson – How Writing Changes The Writer
By the time I get to the boggy third quarter of writing a novel… I’m thoroughly sick of the ‘guests’.…
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Sally Kindberg – Why I Write
Then, one summer, everything changed; I discovered Cocteau, Sartre and Camus and left comics behind… for a while at least.…
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Jon Mayhew – Letter To My Readers
The almost daily drip-feed of doom-laden news that you children – my main readership – no longer read; you’re too…
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Rhiannon Tise – My Reading Habits
When I’m reading novels for potential adaptations, or books for research, I can’t read anything for pleasure… everything I read…
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Linda Hoy – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Every. Unnecessary. Word. There were thousands. I could cross out ‘and’ and use the semi-colon; all the stuff that was…
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Susan Fletcher – Why I Write
This purpose, that landed inside me at eleven years old, in the wildest part of Wales, has never left. I…
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Ros Barber – How Writing Changes The Writer
In making the chaos of experience into something with shape, structure, perhaps even beauty, you can find a resolution for…