Writing as a life choice isn’t easy. It’s actually a bit mad. But those who have the urge just can’t stop.
However, everybody will give you advice and I suppose I’m doing the same here. 🙂
Not advice about punctuation, dialogue or how to set the scene or bring characters to life – that’s craft […]
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Absolutely delighted to have Lorna Fergusson back on the blog after a 10 year absence! Apart from being a skilled and evocative writer, she’s a writing coach, editor and speaker. Her work includes The Chase and An Oxford Vengeance.
She runs Fictionfire Literary Consultancy and has taught on various Oxford University writing programmes since […]
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Republished As a language nerd, certified translator and writer of fiction (and in a previous existence of proposals, reports, corporate documentation, advertising and PR copy), I’ve always been interested in the power of words. Tone, style and formality as important as context.
Although multi-lingual, I write in my mother-tongue English, but when writing a story […]
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When I started this scribbling business in 2009, I sat down one morning in front of my computer and typed for ninety days.
As a professional translator, I knew I would have to edit anything I produced. I joined a writers’ group and survived the terror of reading my offering aloud for the first time […]
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When we write, we hope that somewhere, in some way, somebody will read it and embrace the message we are sending. When we receive an email from a reader saying they ‘get’ our concept and book world, or when a reader comes up to us at a book event and says it to our face, […]
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