Chris Westwood – My Reading Habits
The novel I believed did not want to be written suddenly wrote itself right to the end in a matter…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
Lucy Jago – Writers Who Inspire Me
Reading the book as a student in Thatcher’s London it subtly but perfectly reflected the culture around me. Material possessions…
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Amanda Swift – The Best Advice I Ever Received
Like many writers I write best when I care about my characters because if I don’t care about them, how…
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Doug Johnstone – How I Write
I write fast and in short bursts to keep the energy of the prose up, and I write in the…
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Amanda Mitchison – Letter To My Younger Self
You were brave to the point of foolhardiness but put you in front of a keyboard and you were a…
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Caitlin Davies – My Reading Habits
After a man broke into my home and tried to kill me I couldn’t read properly for five years. I…
Roopa Farooki – Writers Who Inspire Me
I felt that the characters in Tyler’s fiction were true to the tips of their fingers, knotted into their world…
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Kevin Clarke – Why I Write
Having always been isolated I created imaginative worlds of my own, and I do so still. Oh dear! It all…
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Simon Rae – How Writing Changes The Writer
I write every day and become captivated by the way the story unfolds. Although as author I am notionally in…
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Shyama Perera – My Reading Habits
I’ve largely read novels or non-fiction, but then I got involved with a community based RLF project, the Reading Round,…
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Shahrukh Husain – The Best Advice I Ever Received
I invented a couple of characters, stocked up on stationery and wrote every night. A few months later I submitted…
Shelley Silas – Letter To My Younger Self
The profession you have chosen requires a great deal of patience, with people keeping you waiting, never responding, or never…