Anna Reynolds – Letter To My Audience
When I’m writing a play I do sometimes imagine the audience reacting to a particular moment but not usually by…
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Jane Shilling – Why I Write
I was reading Chekhov short stories soon after the birth and the thought came to me that if I tried…
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Brian Clegg – How I Write
Frankenstein-like, I assemble the whole from whatever components I have to hand. Frankenstein-like, I assemble the whole from whatever components…
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Anita Mason – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Advice from tutors is usually sound because they are thinking about the craft; advice from publishers is frequently disastrous. Advice…
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Alison Bruce – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
Jane is completely reliant on Rochester’s account of his marriage; he refers to Bertha’s madness as hereditary. Jane is completely…
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Linda Hoy
I’ll never forget the delight of that reverential calm as thirty-five young teenagers sat before me, spellbound, silently turning the…
Laura Beatty – Life-changing Literature
Recently I fell out of love with the written word; so glib, so manipulable and so manipulative. I started resenting…
Geoff Hattersley – Letter To My Readers
One of you once told me you thought I’d been very brave to put so much of myself into the…
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Carina Rodney – Why I Write
I write because I can make a world in my head come alive on the stage or screen. I write…
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Gabriel Gbadamosi – The Future Of Literature
I’ve heard tell of the psychopathology of answering machines, the ghost-in-the-machine poetry of microprocessors, but I’ve watched the use of…
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Caitlin Davies – Marketing And Me
While I was shy and embarrassed to begin with, I soon became obsessed. I didn’t like the person I was…
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Jon Mayhew – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Be yourself. Write the story that is growing in your head, not the one you think an editor might like…