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The focus you get from knowing young exactly what you want to do in life and being determined to do…
Every writer comes to a point where the gains outweigh the risks, where the financial burden is second to wanting…
Let’s face it. Basically, you’re on your own, and ultimately, boringly, it’s discipline isn’t it? Let’s face it. Basically, you’re…
I am the scribe. I record, I argue, I raise awareness and I try to persuade others through my words.…
What held me was the brilliant, innovative and charming way in which Stone presented the people he had met during…
These asylum seekers who had come in search of escape, were instead caught in another trap. These asylum seekers who…
Young people growing up today have in general abandoned the age-old tradition of diary writing in favour of recording their…
I also aspire to read a play a day, which is unrealistic if you are a commissioned writer with a…
Planning and plaiting the story strands can seem like just more hardcore displacement activity, until you don’t do it. Planning…
Although I had trained as a nurse, to me writing was a white, educated occupation; having read loads of books,…
Your own complete ignorance of the world and everything in it… which then enables you to find almost everything interesting.…
I marched straight to the ‘wallflower’ seats and opened up my novel. So entranced was I in the plot. I…
