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Alison Bruce – Writer’s Block
My light This has happened to me so many times now that I am of the firm belief that writer’s…
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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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Sarah Duncan – My Reading Habits
There is a silver cloud in everything, even disability, as I can now reserve eighteen books at time instead of…
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Tim Ecott – Writers Who Inspire Me
When I start to really pick and choose… the writing I find inspirational is often to do with water, islands,…
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Katherine Clements – Writers Who Inspire Me
Rebecca proved that literary merit is not the antithesis of a good yarn; it is possible, perhaps preferable, to do…
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Ros Barber – Letter To My Younger Self
You’ll contort yourself into someone you don’t recognise… and then surface, to write the novels you dreamed of writing. You’ll…
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Alicia Foster – Letter To My Readers
If I say I can’t imagine you, and I’ve never tried to, please don’t take it the wrong way; it’s…
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Brian Keaney – The Future Of Literature
Maybe, at some point, people will be given implants that will allow words and images to be sent directly to…
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Dyan Sheldon – The Best Advice I Ever Received
By reading you learn about pacing, plotting, character and style and you learn what makes a book memorable. Without even…
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Katherine Stansfield – Letter To My Younger Self
You believe that ‘C’ is The End, and that means you’re staying put when all you want is to go.…
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Trish Cooke – Why I Write
I didn’t know how to make sense of losing her. Writing became a place of refuge. I didn’t know how…
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Robyn Bolam – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
We all have our own “spots of time” as Wordsworth defines them, intensely felt moments at the imaginative and emotional…
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Vayu Naidu – Writer’s Block
Avoiding eye contact with the writing tools; laptop screen, pen, notebook, backs of envelopes, seething with undecipherable scribbles. A swift…