Tag: Harry Friday Email

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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A hard-to-read medieval hand

Righto. Now, last week, in Feedback Friday, we were looking at your mysteries – not detective novels, for the most part, just places in your…

Harry 28 June 2024

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Playing chess with pigeons 

We had a nice exercise on Feedback Friday last week – all about finding the romance between him and her, when one of the two…

Harry 21 June 2024

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A floaty green dress and sandals

We think romance is about him and her, right? That it’s Lizzie and Darcy dancing at a ball, emotions pushing at each other. Scarlett O’Hara…

Harry 14 June 2024

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Tin mugs and plenty of tea

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. And yes, the military significance of those landings looms a little larger in Anglo-American eyes…

Harry 7 June 2024

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National service! More frogs! Better porridge!

Oh glory of glories, it’s election time in the UK, a summer election whose most notable emblem so far is a Prime Minister getting fabulously…

Harry 31 May 2024

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