Writing
Notes on the work, and on the making of it.
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Mind the Gap
The Return of a Writer.
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Drowning in a Deluge of Words
A typing class in the early seventies, a writers’ conference forty years later, and the reason to keep going.
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A Licence to Write
On writing outside your own experience, and how to do it with some care.
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When the Protagonist Won't Let You Inside Their Head
Five ways to close the gap when your lead character is several steps removed from you.
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Jumping Tracks When You Are So Immersed
Finishing one book and discovering you are in mourning for its characters.
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Writing Squeamishly
The scenes we skirt around, and what our reluctance to write them says about us.
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Day One at Glenfern, Studio 2
The first day of three months’ leave, a shared writers’ studio, and a cafe owner from Yazd.