Alicia Foster – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
I met the real-life inspiration for one of the women characters, Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal, or ‘Dean’ as he…
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Brian Keaney – Letter To My Readers
I want your attention. That’s why I spend all those hours hammering away at a keyboard. It’s all about you.…
Doug Johnstone – Letter To My Younger Self
Space is still exciting and you wouldn’t believe some of the discoveries scientists have made. But sadly, aliens still haven’t…
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Siân Rees – How I Write
I am no longer young or teetotal. I have a respectable number of friends, and a couple of dependants, and…
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Marcy Kahan – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I went back to my hotel room, leafed through the mound of tattered pages on the desk, and wished with…
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Brian Keaney – Why I Write
I carried around in my head a whole pantheon of dead family members, to each of whom a story was…
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Elanor Dymott – Life-changing Literature
As darkness fell on each painful night, I reconstructed the book from memory, trying to get a little further each…
Anne Wilson – Writers Who Inspire Me
Quality TV drama writers inspire me to script scenes exactly as they happen in my head and to learn from…
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Andrew Lycett – Why I Write
Being able to spend three years in the company of extraordinary characters such as Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas,…
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Nicolette Jones – My Reading Habits
Under pressure, or in the grip of a story I can’t tear myself from, I occasionally read as I walk…
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Deborah Chancellor – Life-changing Literature
It is sometimes hard to distinguish between memorable books and inspiring books. I remember books for various reasons. It is…
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Nicholas Murray – Letter To My Younger Self
The life of a writer is always provisional, uncertain, insecure, fluctuating, and I cannot tell you how you might avoid…