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Robyn Bolam – Writer’s Block
I distracted myself from not being able to write either a bird of prey poem, or a women wanting to…
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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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Tiffany Murray – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I figure out whole narratives in two miles; if I don’t have my notebook I’ll forget the stories. I figure…
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Clare Shaw – Life-changing Literature
Every poem, every book I’ve ever read has been a friend and a lover, good or bad. They’re part of…
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Tim Ecott – Why I Write
The gathering clouds of certitude that trying to be a writer in what many regard as a post-literary world is…
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Christina Hopkinson – Letter To My Younger Self
Nobody’s looking at you and pointing and judging. You should work hard to be listened to, rather than looked at.…
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Brian McCabe – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I realised that you didn’t have to use bigger, abstruse words, and that simple language needn’t mean expressing simple feelings.…
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Sally Kindberg – How I Write
A notebook must fit into a pocket, ready to receive drawings, an overheard conversation, a telling phrase. A notebook must…
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Brian Keaney – Writer’s Block
If Jasper represented writer’s block, then what I needed was a bigger, meaner cat that represented inspiration. I decided to…
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Vayu Naidu – Writers Who Inspire Me
Just when Freddie Mercury was taking off in our dichotomised university lives in India, came Keki Daruwalla… the Parsi policeman…
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Sophia Bennett – How I Write
Many, many ideas die a quiet death; they weren’t strong enough or they’ve been done before. But some stick. Many,…
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Philippa Stockley – Marketing And Me
Women who write are as blood-curdlingly ambitious for fame, acclaim and money as the next person. Women who write are…
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Ros Barber – Why I Write
If I’d known finishing the book would have necessitated processing my brother’s death I probably wouldn’t have started it. If…