{"id":6604,"date":"2021-10-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/townhouse\/articles\/its-heaven-in-devon\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"its-heaven-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/its-heaven-in-devon\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s heaven in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m on holiday and not by my computer, so this email is a Cheat, a Lie and a Fraud. It\u2019s like the fake moon landings, the CIA-created Kennedy assassination and the so-called \u201cdeath\u201d of Elvis, but in sneaky, digital form.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, instead of a proper new email, here are reminders of nine emails from the last year or so \u2013 my personal favourites.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nine Odd Things<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my favourites from recent weeks. It talks about all the things that are strange in this little industry of ours. Clue: when I started writing the email originally, it was entitled Three Odd Things. Turns out, when I sat down to think about it, there was a lot more oddness than that. \u2639<\/p>\n

Image of the week: cauliflower.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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White Chairs, Green Terraces<\/strong><\/p>\n

This email got more comments on the community than anything else this year. Gotta include it for that reason, but also the email and your responses illustrate brilliantly (i) how pernickety and hard writing is and (ii) how big things end up climbing on board little ones.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: white chairs, green terraces<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Be happy<\/strong><\/p>\n

A good news email \u2013 reasons to be positive about publishing. Also: a reminder of the happy day when eleven English pig\u2019s-bladder kickers did better pig\u2019s-bladder kicking than eleven Vikings.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: a pig\u2019s bladder, sort of.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Finding the red thread<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you sign a 2-book deal with a publisher, you can\u2019t just drift, waiting for inspiration to strike. You have to, in effect, industrialise the process \u2013 make it controllable and repeatable. This email suggests some techniques for doing just that.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: moss \u2013 obviously<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Passion, the market, and you<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why you have to write what you love. And why you have to write for the market. And why those things are not in conflict.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: mince pies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Building it bad to build it right<\/strong><\/p>\n

This subject is a quirky personal favourite of mine. It\u2019s all about terrible sentences that work brilliantly because they\u2019re terrible. It\u2019s not really a subject you need to master as a writer \u2013 or ever show any interest in at all \u2013 but \u2026 well, it tickles me and always has.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: a brick wall<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A song from the tightrope<\/strong><\/p>\n

This email started with a single thought, this one: \u201cCreative writers and, really, creators of almost any sort, are often asked to perform their best work without any kind of support<\/em>.\u201d I\u2019d forgotten it was Friday and bashed that email out quickly and thinking it was probably not much good. The response I got from you lot told me different.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: a tightrope, what else?<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Finding Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another recent favourite that I enjoyed writing & struck a chord with many of you. It\u2019s all about what metaphors are for \u2013 in prose rather than poetry \u2013 and how you can grope your way to finding the right image at the right time.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: Romeo & Juliet<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A jewelled missile<\/strong><\/p>\n

An important idea in this email, I think. It\u2019s about how you can expand your writing by using relatively uncommon \u2013 but extremely well-known \u2013 words (like \u2018jewelled\u2019 and \u2018missile\u2019 in fact.) It\u2019s a really easy technique to get your head around and the impact on your writing can be really profound.<\/p>\n

Image of the week: a hummingbird<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s it from me. Or that\u2019s it from my digital avatar. Me, I\u2019m swimming happily in a sea that is at least several degrees above freezing. When I get back to Oxfordshire, I will find that the combination of sea-swimming and wind-chill will have shrunk me to the size of a field mouse.<\/p>\n

Squeak, squeak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m on holiday and not by my computer, so this email is a Cheat, a Lie and a Fraud. It\u2019s like the fake moon landings, the CIA-created Kennedy assassination and the so-called \u201cdeath\u201d of Elvis, but in sneaky, digital form. 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