I seem to be having a minor attack of writer’s doubt. I am just over halfway through the first draft…
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How many times have we seen the imperative ‘read carefully’ on medication instructions or an installation guide? I can only speak…
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It is rapidly approaching the seventh anniversary of leaving Tenerife, the sub-tropical island which had been our home for 14…
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I t strikes me that writing a novel is a bit like designing a kitchen. Designing a kitchen J ack…
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Over the twixmas period I inadvertently found myself hitting the writing refresh button and returning to my current work-in-progress. I…
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How influential writing can really be is the enormous question that, from time to time, makes me stop and think.…
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Do bad books get good sales and if so, does that justify poor writing? After a full-on weekend with our…
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For the past few months my latest work-in-progress, writing a historic novel, has been on the back burner while we…
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Last week was The Big Move. After what felt like an eternity spent booking things, cancelling things, and packing things,…
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Literary festivals, it seems, are like buses – you wait forever for one and then two come along together. This…
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