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Round up: The Hobbit at 80. Penelope Lively at 84. Philip Pullman’s new trilogy. Free short stories. Writing prompts.Marilynne Robinson. And more!
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This week in writing prompts – life i...
That moment when you realise you are utterly alone. You reach to hold a hand that isn’t there, and cast about then and see only strangers. WTN #pr...
This week in writing prompts – your o...
If, like me, you’re wrapping up a major project, you may be casting around for some new ideas. Even when I’m deeply embedded in something, though, I often ...
Last edits on your novel? Record an a...
An audio-draft is essentially a scratch audiobook. An audio-draft does not require professional recording kit or access to acting talent. You can (and abso...
52 Stories #7 – The Idiot President b...
The Idiot President was published in The New Yorker in October 2008. Set in a recently war-ravaged South American nation, the story describes the two month...
Write This Now! – Questions to Ask Ab...
These questions are designed to help you define the essence of a scene you are writing or rewriting. They ask you to consider the function and structure of ...
52 Stories #6 – Everything Ravaged, E...
It was a warren of a place off Coldharbour Lane with echoing stairwells and concrete floors. An oddly brutalist interior at odds with the Victorian fascia ...
52 Stories #5 – Yours Truly by A. M. ...
Here are some things that I would say. A list of sorries. A bucket of them. A penitent dumptruck, loosing sorry like a shoal of fish, not yet dead and flap...