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Archive for the ‘Technique’ Category

  • Do’s and don’ts of submitting to agents

    30 Oct 2019

    SUBMITTING TO AGENTS Crime writer Dominique Hall has written to me for advice on sending a novel to an agent.…

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  • How to create a character that lives

    20 Sep 2019

    HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER THAT LIVES This week I talked to Bonnie D Graham on her radio programme Read…

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  • The roller-coaster ride of publishing a novel

    04 Jul 2019

    THE ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF PUBLISHING A NOVEL It’s not often that a writer gets to blow his own trumpet, but…

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  • Openings

    19 Jun 2019

    Openings It was like they weren’t there. This is the opening sentence of my novel The Breaking of Liam Glass.…

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  • What makes good writing great?

    06 Jun 2019

    What makes good writing great? What sorts the Austens from the Dan Browns? The Truffauts from the Ed Woods? It’s…

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  • 7 steps that make a satisfying ending

    17 May 2019

    7 steps that make a satisfying ending In 2000 the movie What Lies Beneath opened to mixed reviews. Despite a…

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  • Till the trumpets crack – going beyond

    11 May 2019

    Till the trumpets crack – going beyond In the second movement of Beethoven’s masterful symphony the ‘Eroica’ the music takes…

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  • Has Amazon deleted your reviews?

    04 Apr 2019

    Has Amazon deleted your reviews? A few weeks ago I wrote a blog in which I said how important reviews…

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  • How to write a riveting review

    08 Mar 2019

    How to write a riveting review This week, an art that is both very new and almost as old as…

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  • Rules for novelists writing rules for novelists

    21 Nov 2018

    Many writers have handed down their golden rules for novelists. There seems to come a moment in every writer’s life…

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