nothing in the rulebook
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Tag: writing advice
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Award-winning author, Amber Byers, explains how you can tell a compelling story that impacts the reader in 100 words or less…
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Five years ago, Pam Petro was visiting her mother in a nursing home in Connecticut. She’d arranged to meet her mother’s caregiving team for a meeting, but she was early, so she went for a walk. It was a walk she’d done before, around a pond in the grounds, but as she set off, she…
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Writer and tutor Helen Yendall shares her top tips for writers thinking of submitting their work to writing competitions
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“Over the years, we’ve dealt with a fair amount of criticism for apparently encouraging smoking. But we don’t! We encourage reading flash fiction instead. Could you imagine? We’d go on our flash breaks. We’d have special areas at airports. We’d have flasher’s cough.”
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‘Woke’ literature, the unfulfilled promise of e-books, collapsing author incomes and the rise of crowdfunding – here’s a (far from exhaustive) look back at what the 2010s taught us about the literary industry
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Check out Ursula K Le Guin’s “ideal” schedule for writing
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Sophie McDonald considers the giant planetary forces that influence the choosing of fictional character’s names.
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The place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one. As readers, we may notice their role only when a certain lack of editorial presence is felt in the books that we read (for instance, in many self-published works on Amazon). While, as writers, editors can seem to be the…
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Ben Thomas is editor of The Willows Magazine, author of The Cradle and the Sword, creator of TheStrangeContinent.com, and founder of the neuroscience news agency The Connectome. He travels the world as a freelance writer, and has lived in more than 40 countries. His hobbies include aquaculture, Linux customisation, tantric meditation and ink drawing. INTERVIEWER…
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Pssst… are you playing Dungeons & Dragons yet? In case you didn’t know, it’s not just for ‘nerds’ any more, hiding in their bedrooms with stacks upon stacks of impenetrable lore. These days, D&D has experienced a massive resurgence — partially thanks to Netflix nostalgia machine Stranger Things — and is now the focus of…
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