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Category: The writer’s life

Leaky pipes

Last week, we talked about how you can manage your affairs effectively even if you feel daunted by the potential scale of the marketing challenges…
Harry 30 April 2021
3 Comments

How to be organised

I like tea and I need reading glasses. I mention this only because both activities require some basic accessories: a china cup in one case…
Harry 23 April 2021
12 Comments

How to build an author website (without screaming)

I wrote an email before this one – reread it – didn’t like – and scrapped it. So here instead is a workhorse of an…
Harry 16 April 2021
10 Comments

Summer Festival of Writing Early Bird tickets have landed!

Your summer of writing starts here Well, do we have a lot to get through in this newsletter! Excitingly, this is the first weekly newsletter…
Esther 13 April 2021
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The fourth line, and then the fifth line …

As you know, I’m on a George Saunders kick at the moment, and this email closes a trilogy inspired by his Swim In A Pond…
Harry 9 April 2021
23 Comments

Members | Exciting changes are coming to Jericho Writers

Exploring your membership is about to get a whole lot easier  The newsletter this week is a little different. You might have spotted our recent…
Esther 6 April 2021
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The click of billiard balls

I mentioned last week that I was reading George Saunders’ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, a book about reading and writing. It’s…
Harry 1 April 2021
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LOOKING FOR FRIENDS

Hi – anyone want o be my friend? Im new to Townhouse, and maybe there’s a section where we apply to find members of our…
roisin.maguire 27 March 2021
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White chairs, green terraces

A few weeks back, one of you excellent people recommended George Saunders’s book on reading and writing, A Swim In A Pond In The Rain.…
Harry 26 March 2021
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Building it bad to build it right

One particular joy I have as a writer and a reader is sentences that work, because they don’t. Here’s an example (from Dodie Smith again,…
Harry 19 March 2021
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