Tag: Harry Friday Email

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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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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A shimmering green gown & an unreliable smile

This week is a good and beautiful week, one of the best weeks ever. And why? Because it is Week #3 of our Write with…

Harry 14 February 2025

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Twinkling in the half-sunlight

This week saw the launch of Week #2 of our Write with Jericho course. (It’s free to Premium members, naturally. If you’re not a member…

Harry 7 February 2025

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The porpoise in every scene

Novels are necklaces. We talk a lot about the structure of a plot, and stress about it, and we’re right to talk and stress because…

Harry 31 January 2025

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Conveying your characters’ feelings (effectively)

Last week’s email was all about staying close to character and I ended, in a way I seldom do, by being a bit mean about…

Harry 24 January 2025

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Car windscreens and fallen magnolia petals

One of the bits of feedback I give most – and really, I’d want to give it almost all the time, on auto-repeat – is:…

Harry 17 January 2025

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The great books you can’t write (and the one that you can)

Most nights, I watch a bit of TV with the missus before bed. She does not get ready as fast as I do, so I…

Harry 10 January 2025

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A simple, repeatable joy

My last email was grumpy. Bah humbug. A silver cane waved menacingly at orphans. This email is festive. A Merry Christmas to us all! A…

Harry 20 December 2024

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The easiest technique in fiction

Lots of things in writing are hard. One thing in particular is very, very easy… but it’s astonishingly neglected by a lot of writers. Here’s…

Harry 6 December 2024

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