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Corrupting Youth - Confessions of Shameful Reading

For somebody who ended up aspiring to be a writer of vaguely literary fiction, I had the most dismal reading habits when I was a child....

Ten Tips From The Top – Talentless Writer Tells All

What do you need to be a writer apart from a pencil and a pad of paper? Plenty, but here, in no particular order, are ten possible...

The Great Unpublished

Before my first novel was accepted, I had more or less given up, and decided that all that remained for me was to accept failure and...

Teaching Dolphins to Swim: Negative Ambitions & Lamentable Idealism.

Why write? I don’t mean what characteristics define a writing spirit, I’ve had a bash at that elsewhere, but what is the underlying...

The Deerhunter – beats working

We were in Canada a little while back. Went walking everyday in the snowy woods behind our friends’ house, where we saw plenty of wild...

Toy Soldiers – What Makes A Writer?

What makes a writer? Apart from a writer’s mother, that is, and I don’t mean that in a Freudian sense. But what persuades thousands of...

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