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Category: The craft of writing

Characters in a flick of paint

You know how gifted artists can suggest a face – and a mood, a character, a personality – in just a few swift lines? Well,…
Harry 4 July 2025
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The long game, the ragged edge

We all know about Chekhov’s gun. The playwright wrote to a young dramatist saying: “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if…
Harry 27 June 2025
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The pedantry and the poetry (Editing Series V)

For the past four weeks, I’ve talked in detail about how I personally edit a book. Today, I’m still talking about editing, but I want…
Harry 6 June 2025
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How I actually edit (I)

With the first lesson of our brand new Premium Member course Introduction to Self-Editing launching this week, I thought I’d share my own editing process…
Harry 9 May 2025
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The crown of my life

I yap on a lot about novels in these emails: I’ve written plenty of novels; I like writing them; the vast majority of you guys…
Harry 18 April 2025
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Arranging tables – and the importance of making readers work

Well, golly gosh, I thought last week’s Feedback Friday was interesting – and brave for the good souls who took part. We asked people to…
Harry 14 March 2025
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AI, a Viking longship and the future of writing

For a long time, I’ve held off writing about the impact of AI on what we do. Partly, none of us knows the answer and…
Harry 7 March 2025
3 Comments

Don’t just do something, stand there

A new air, a fresh day, the first narcissi and a sense of spring. The Write with Jericho course no longer occupies these emails –…
Harry 28 February 2025
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Feedback Guidelines

As part of this writing community, offering thoughtful and constructive feedback to others is a key way you can help other authors to grow and…
Tanya 21 February 2025
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Showing, telling and breaking the rules

This week is a good and beautiful week, but also a sad week; a week that enters with the last note of a bugle fading…
Harry 21 February 2025
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  • The pedantry and the poetry (Editing Series V)

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  1. Lisa Rajan on Characters in a flick of paint4 July 2025

    I felt like everyone was looking at me and talking about me. That dumb girl who can’t say no. The…

  2. Chris Cutler on Characters in a flick of paint4 July 2025

    WIP: The girl in the tower Elevator pitch: True story of a girl who fakes imprisonment to study Alchemy. Opening…

  3. JessicaWong on How to Sell A Book, if you can sail faster than the wind2 July 2025

    Cool!

  4. JessicaWong on How to Sell A Book, if you can sail faster than the wind2 July 2025

    Cool ideas into author mindset and how crucial it is to treat writing like a serious endeavor, not just a…

  5. Valérie Follmer on Welcome to Townhouse!6 June 2025

    Totally new to Jericho, this will be my first time joining the event, but I am still feeling overwhelmed and…

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