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Writers block? I need inspiration
The news provides rich pickings for stories. Today, for instance: ‘humans may have hibernated’, ‘longest ever chess columnist reaches 70th year’, ‘zoo appeals for pets to feed to exhibits’. How do we turn these into fictional stories?
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Advice from a literary agent
Really good article on Writers & Artists by literary agent Oscar Janson-Smith. His advice in securing an agent? I would add a caveat to his first paragraph – get your work at its best, but also have the confidence and self-belief to know when it’s at its best. Another point for my money: process the…
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Describing the appearance of characters
I won’t lie. Description is my Achilles’ heel. I’m terrible at reading it too, skipping over swathes of it. I like it short and sweet; to know the character in as few words as possible. (Yet Lord of the Rings is one of my favourite books. Go figure.) Every writer has strengths and weaknesses. But…
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Colonised writing
After inhabiting the polar south with my 1914 horror noveletta, The Crate, I’m up in the north, sucked into the 1845 ill-fated Franklin expedition to find the North-West Passage by way of horror fictionalisation The Terror, by Dan Simmons. Anyway, Google meanderings through the historical background found this in The Conversation, by a Canadian Inuit…
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