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Are novellas value for money

Writing

November 10, 2025

Making Every Word Count

‘Yes, but Claire Keegan makes every word count,’ the Waterstones assistant assured us. We had been browsing for fresh reading…

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Endings

Writing

October 20, 2025

How to End My Novel

H ow to end my novel was never an issue for me; I knew exactly how it would end before…

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

My Reading List

October 8, 2025

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

T he Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern opens a world of magic, illusion, rivalry and love into which you gratefully…

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Learning touch typing

Life Writing

September 25, 2025

Older Learners

O lder learners are slower to learn but retain their learning more effectively. That was what I was told in…

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Getting Published Writing

September 17, 2025

Self-Publishing vs Partnership Publishing

T he arguments for self-publishing vs partnership publishing, and indeed traditional publishing, have been raging for many years now. The…

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summer's ripe plums

Life Writing

September 1, 2025

Maintaining My Writing Discipline

F or me, maintaining my writing discipline goes (literally) out the window when the sky is blue, the sun is…

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Life

August 15, 2025

Visioning

I first encountered visioning back in December 1997 in another life. I attended a 2-day workshop led by Jack Black,…

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My Reading List

July 25, 2025

Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler

L ady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler, was adapted from a screenplay written by the author, into her debut novel. Unlike…

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Getting Published Writing

July 21, 2025

Interviews with Literary Agents

The opportunity to have two 10-minute interviews with literary agents about our current W.I.P (work-in-progress) was undoubtably one of the…

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Writing

July 1, 2025

London Festival of Writing

Having spent the weekend at the London Festival of Writing, Jack and I returned on Sunday evening, exhausted and with…

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