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I like to keep a meticulous, joylessly Presbyterian record of my daily toil, and I’ve had to accept that, for…
I may have a science degree but I’m not a scientist. Equally, I know far too much science to be…
Penny Hancock describes how losing her sense of smell had an unexpected impact on her writing. Penny Hancock describes how…
I had to pinch myself to believe I was really speaking to audiences in the Emirates, where the new Vice…
In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about the limitations of genre and their struggle against being pigeonholed. In the…
Quite often I’ve dropped the project altogether and gone onto something else, in a different medium. Turning my back on…
I’d love to rewrite Barnaby Rudge. Principally, to do justice to the most interesting and unusual character in the book…
My father was a mining engineer, and although our house looked out onto fields, not colliery wheels, I’ve enjoyed writing…
Although you can imagine the Saffron Hill rookery that Oliver Twist was spirited away to by the Artful Dodger, the…
Vitali Vitaliev considers the joys and challenges experienced by bilingual authors and revisits his childhood to remember his first teacher…
When I switched from adult fiction to YA, I was suddenly and acutely more aware of my readers than I…
Don’t worry about computers, quiet offices, special chairs. Your two most crucial writing tools are a ukulele and an old…
