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Tomorrow Belongs To You

If you really care about things, practise what you preach. If you are a writer or an agent or a

It’s felt a bit of a grim year for events in the wider world: terror, Brexit, xenophobia, squabbles on social media.

The first version of this post described how I got emotional at a workshop at York this year, but every time

Last night I was very happy to take part in the inaugural Words Away literary salon run by Kellie Jackson

This is an exercise to help with revising, but it could also be used in other contexts. It builds on Friday Writing

If possible, the first time you do this, rather than reading ahead, read each stage and follow its instructions before

Yesterday I returned from my fifth Festival of Writing. I’m tired, and overstimulated, and typing on three devices; I have email,

Today is my first day back at my desk, and even though it feels as if summer only began last

Today I led a session called Should You Take The Job? at a professional development day on Editing For Fiction organised by

How many times do we have to revisit this question of whether writing can be taught? Of course writing can be

Yesterday I book doctored at the Writers’ Workshop Getting Published Day at Regents College. It was a lot of fun. I

Lynda Barry sounds like one of those Americans I love to be around: a progressive hippie (I assume …) with a