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The renowned Nicola Morgan, famously proud to be the first Google result for “Crabbit Old Bat” and an award-winning author of around ninety books, never fails to offer diamonds to aspiring writers. Frankness and occasional brutality are her hallmarks. But she’s usually right. So, in my morning scan of blogs, I found her post today […] Post-machete, post-rewrite of scenes, post-restructuring, I may possibly have kneaded the flabby dough of my master-work into some kind of presentable product. The plot has changed, the tension ramped up, the prose decimated and a sting in the tail (tale?) injected into the ending. I’ve printed the whole thing out, double-spaced, ready for the tooth-comb. […] Perhaps I’ve been a bit slow, but I had a light bulb moment when munching my croissant this morning. I’ve been playing around with some ideas for a one-sentence ‘hook’ for my novel INCEPTIO and have been researching, scribbling, thinking about it over the past few days. Scanning the Radio Times at breakfast, I read […] My reading tastes are pretty wide-ranging. I like a challenge. I like a good story. I’m nosy as well as persistent, so however poor a start, I’ll plough on with most books because I want to know what happens. I’ll read almost anything: from Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon and Kafka’s The Trial to […] |
   
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