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The gulf between the synopsis and the novel is ineffable, bridgeable only by the writing of the book. The gulf…
Miranda Miller examines the writing notebooks kept by Henry James and finds useful advice for modern novelists. For more than…
As an adult, I’ve formed the habit of taking seasonal notes almost every day. It feels like reaching out a…
I’ve written books that deal with post-traumatic stress, with mental health issues, with homelessness and missing persons, suicide and survival…
Lucy Caldwell speaks with Ann Morgan about mentors, writing forms and the challenges of early publication. Lucy Caldwell speaks with…
Ian McEwan seemed cheered that the delivery boy on his cold doorstep — dressed all working class and salt of…
The Brandon Estate community mural is huge. On the wall are images of the Chartists, kite-flyers, the Empire Windrush ship…
Does any writer, in fact, work well to a background of distraction? His son’s violin practice drove Philip Pullman to…
Zoë Howe on the challenges of stepping outside your creative comfort zone. Zoë Howe explores the challenges of stepping outside…
I frequently think that if I’d had any sense I’d have given up all other forms of writing and concentrated…
By the time I was working on my fourth novel, The Thousand Lights Hotel, I was thirty-six and my son…
What should a writer do when someone says no? With poems sent to magazines, that’s life. It’s unlikely to have…
