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I don’t know what the marketing departments of publishers expect when they send out the press release for a new…
Stephen Sharkey explains why adapting novels for the stage is a great idea, and Bill Kirton spends an enchanted evening…
I was playing. I take play very seriously. I was wrapping prose around poems, then freeing the poems. I was…
Different stories feel like they require different storytelling registers and so when I am working out whatever story I want…
It’s quite normal for me to be having a conversation, or bathing my three year old daughter, only to be…
Lee Weatherly on the value of writerly intuition. Lee Weatherly on the value of writerly intuition and how professional experience…
However tempting the urge to retrace and re-examine, suppress that urge and track onward to the end. You need the…
I’ve been taught from childhood that integrity is everything, and paying somebody to write a review would be a mortal…
Shelley Harris speaks with Bethan Roberts about perfectionism and other disabling myths, and writing superpowers. Shelley Harris speaks with Bethan…
Andrei Platonov has an unquenchable belief that ordinary people, however damaged get their act together. This is most precious of…
Outsiders masquerading as insiders. That’s how I feel when I’m writing a book. Only pretending to inhabit the everyday world.…
I am definitely not one of those people who can get up before everyone else and work for three hours.…
