How I Write
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What's the most effective writing routine, and how many words should you aim for each day? Which author composes in a shed and who retreats to a Greek island to reflect and write? Read on to find out... |
Campaigning environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England, gives Dan Cadwallader advice on telling stories...
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Meg Rosoff talked about writing for teens at the 2009 London Book Fair. Profwriting student Fiona Egglestone reports...
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“Novelists get to the heart of things; journalists can’t,” said Blake Morrison speaking recently at University College...
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"If you have an idea for a book, read everything you can about your particular genre."
• Go and browse in the...
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John le Carré is one of the world's best-selling spy novelists. Want to know why he writes – and his tips for those...
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Like all writers, Angela Sherlock knows the importance of practising the craft every day. Here she describes how she...
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Sophie Parkin tells Phil Williams how the recession of the early 90s prompted her to switch career – and how she...
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"I prefer to write in longhand, and then send the first draft to be typed up. In longhand the writing process feels...
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Multi-award-winning author Sarah Waters talks to Andi Chapman about her day-to-day life as a writer and how her life as...
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"Annoyingly I write best early on and later on in the day. When writing Lizzie Siddal, I would try to start at 7am,...
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"Mornings are for new work, afternoons for updating, revising, editing. Some days work – others don’t. Some days you’ll...
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"People who are very successful have a good idea of what they want. I haven’t necessarily done the right thing"
"Only...
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