Category: The writer’s life

How experimentation has led to new writing opportunities

Today we have a guest post from Louise Lloyd, Publishing Director at Kvoice Magazine. Louise is looking for submissions for her local magazine which was launched…

Holly 8 October 2020

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Seek no more, oh ye seekers of truth

Over the past couple of months, we’ve released two books: GETTING PUBLISHED and 52 LETTERS. Reader response to those books has been lovelier than a…

Harry 30 September 2020

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Why hate poetry?

Poetry’s the marmite of literature. A divisive subject with one side of the scale, I unhappily admit, heavily tipped. I think it’s safe to say…

M 30 September 2020

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Being a genius vs having a genius

For some reason – probably that we all love words – last week’s email generated the biggest response I’ve had for a while. A lot…

Harry 25 September 2020

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Do you have rejection ants?

Ants (Automatic negative thoughts) can multiply to infestation levels after repeated rejections. I wonder what words of wisdom the Jericho community has for sufferers? I…

heather.coombes 23 September 2020

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A jewelled missile

One of the simplest insights in writing is that words matter. That sounds so perilously obvious that I ought to scurry away from it and…

Harry 18 September 2020

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Dialogue Day II, The Sequel

OK. More dialogue today. Three little bits of housekeeping first. Number One. The Summer Festival was such a massive hit, we’ve decided to bring that…

Harry 11 September 2020

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ETHIOPIA 1984–A Short Story

    Locked in a pointless war with Eritrea, Ethiopia looked on as drought brought the nation to its knees. Then the harvest failed. The…

Norman 10 September 2020

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Hey, I’m back!

Hey, how is everyone? Been gone for a while. Whilst trying to juggle the festival and my own novel, I decided to take a break…

sibongile.makuza 4 September 2020

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“It’s Dialogue Day,” he jabbered.

OK, youse. It’s Dialogue Day – based on your submissions to Townhouse. I realise, already, that I’m going to have to write a little dialogue…

Harry 4 September 2020

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