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Linda Cracknell speaks with Doug Johnstone about creative non-fiction, working while walking and the call of the sea. Linda Cracknell…
Metaphors churn on a walk to the shop. Phrases spin on the way to the park. If there’s a stubborn…
I was hardly ever edited back then, and never edited myself. As long as I made the word count I…
Robin Blake asks whether it’s possible for writers to retire and reflects on his own reluctance to stop working. Robin…
We like our own company and may not be accustomed to public speaking. My advice is, though, however frightening it…
This is often the case with writing; extended longueurs when you simply have to trust that, beneath the implacable, icy…
Linda Cracknell speaks with Doug Johnstone about short stories, writing and place, and creative non-fiction. Linda Cracknell speaks with Doug…
Patrick Hardy, interested in my project, asked me to demonstrate a few of the tricks. Mummified Finger? Flapping Thing? I…
A classic crime story starts with a dead body and then we work backwards, often with a central detective character,…
Many of us have Kindles and yet we still buy books, because sometimes we just want something to hold. Or…
The student distrusts their own abilities to evoke a fictional world and so they add in more and more detail.…
Susan Elliot Wright delves into the phenomenon of writer’s block and explains how she broke her own creative paralysis. Susan…
