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Category: The craft of writing

How to Sell A Book, if you’re a portly gentleman running for a door

Last week, I talked about how print-led publishing is essentially dominated by the battle to secure retail space.  If your book gets a really good…
Harry 18 October 2024
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The corpse on the page

Last week, I said: “As you write, and as you edit, you are faced with 1,000,000 choices: again and again and again. Are you happy…
Harry 27 September 2024
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Hunting for vowels in Bryngwyn

Who do you write for? I mean, readers, yes, obviously. But who? Your mum? That old English teacher you loved? Crime fans in general? People…
Harry 20 September 2024
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Pitching backwards, and Standing Stones

Last week, I threw out a Feedback Friday challenge based off the first volume of our Good To Great course. The essence of that task,…
Harry 13 September 2024
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Good to Great

There’s a sweet sadness about early September, isn’t there? The leaves aren’t quite turning, but they’re thinking about it. It isn’t quite cold enough for…
Harry 6 September 2024
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A harsh, unforgiving eye

Last week I said this: Next week … I want to look at how very basic plot summaries can give us important clues about the…
Harry 2 August 2024
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Little things, big things

The kids are off school. Yesterday was – complicated. And right now, I have seven kids in the house with me as the only (vaguely)…
Harry 26 July 2024
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Fifteen inches from the eye

I once wrote a book about payroll fraud. (Yawn.) The fraud in question involved some kind of messing about with employee tax deductions. (Snore.) The…
Harry 19 July 2024
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Planning that novel

We had a good week last week: a flood of good replies, both in relation to “What do you want from writing?” and in relation…
Harry 12 July 2024
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Nuisance emails from Margot & Ryan

Hello writers, we have TWO tasks in this week’s email. If you want to take part in this week’s Feedback Friday, keep reading to find…
Harry 5 July 2024
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    I felt like everyone was looking at me and talking about me. That dumb girl who can’t say no. The…

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

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