Category: The writer’s life

Here lies the body of Mike O’Day

I’ve never really been a sailor, but I’ve done some mucking around in dinghies on lakes and on the coast. At one point, my dad,…

Harry 23 July 2021

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Time – our favourite dimension

Last week we were all set to talk about time, when Markus Dohle of PRH and some Italian pigs’-bladder-kickers got in the way. This week,…

Harry 16 July 2021

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Be happy

I was going to write an email today about time, and how to write it. But then – A group of eleven Englishmen managed to…

Harry 9 July 2021

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The World’s Biggest Pedant

My missus and I are currently watching a Netflix drama, Orange is the New Black, set in a women’s prison in the US. And –…

Harry 2 July 2021

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Bears with muskets

Here’s how writing works: You get an idea for a story (or, actually, a book of almost any kind.) You write it down. In one…

Harry 25 June 2021

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Self-editing webinar – members only

Hello folks We’ve got another self-editing webinar coming up on 6 July at 19:00 (UK time.) If you want to submit some work for me…

Harry 25 June 2021

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Sharing feedback and raising issues with us

Hi everyone, I wanted to firstly draw your attention to a couple of additions we’ve made to our community rules. We try to keep a…

Holly 21 June 2021

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Life, story and the need for corsets

It’s easy to think that because life permits something, then story must too. After all, stories are allowed things like starships, unicorns and Dr Evil,…

Harry 18 June 2021

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Thwackum, Squeers and Griffiths

Back in the day, a top author – such as Henry Fielding, who died in 1754 – would enjoy giving some of his characters names…

Harry 11 June 2021

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How to tell the world that you’re a writer

Establishing an author brand  The Summer Festival of Writing is now in full-swing and we have TWO member-only events happening this week, too. There’s never…

Esther 8 June 2021

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