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You have to write for a long time, to write like yourself …
I recently read two very interesting articles. The first one was by Rodger Evans (Poetry Is A Dangerous Word) in the *Leither Magazine. In his article Rodger suggests poetry doesn’t have to be obscure or difficult to comprehend to be … Continue reading
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Tagged BookRiot, Jeff O'Neal, Literary Fiction, Mark Twain, Miles Davis, Rodger Evans, Shore Poets, The Leither Magazine
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Dragons in Leith Docks!
Despite living in Leith, here in Edinburgh, I somehow missed the Leith Dragon Boat Race last year! I will not do so this year. It’s a wonderful, fun event, which raises tens of thousands of pounds for charity and was started … Continue reading
six more of the best (books on writing …)
Here are six more books to do with writing. I’ve just realised they are almost all by women. Please don’t read anything into that. I don’t have a gender preference when it comes to authors of text books, or any … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Bernays, C'est la Vie!, Carole Blake, Carolyn See, From Pitch To Publication, From Pitch To Publication (Everything You Need To Know To Get Published), Janet Burroway, Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, Making a Literary Life ( Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers), Margaret Atwood, Negotiating With The Dead ( The Empson Lectures), Pamela Painter, The Creative Writing Coursebook, W.D. Wetherell, What If (Writing Exercises For Fiction Writers), Writing Fiction (A Guide To Narrative Craft)
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the first six …
You’ll know, if you’ve been following this blog, how much I value good creative writing text books. The ones shown here are just six of the many I found helpful when I was starting out on the rocky road to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspects of The Novel, Because You Want to Write, best seller, David Evans, David Lodge, EM Forster, John Singleton, Mary Luckhurst, On Writing, Pearlie McNeill, stephen king, The Art Of Fiction, The Creative Writing Handbook, The Independent, The Observer
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Crawley WORDfest and cupcakes :)
If you’ve been keeping an eye on this blog, you’ll know I was in Crawley over the weekend to talk about The Blue Suitcase in Waterstone’s County Mall bookshop as part of Crawley WORDfest. The cosy setting in Waterstone’s lead to … Continue reading