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- The Boys from Biloxi. Has Grisham taken on too big a case?
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- Why I love writing thrillers
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- Fight club: Review of Lionel Shriver’s The Motion of the Body Through Space
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- Everything is copy – review of Nora Ephron Collected
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- Interview with award-winning author Louise Doughty
- #IndieAuthorChat Nov 19 & book offer
- Does satire work?
- Do’s and don’ts of submitting to agents
- Dark night of the soul? Review of Louise Doughty’s Platform Seven
- Behind the Headlines: From Britain to Hollywood (and back)
- How to create a character that lives
- Review: Joe Country by Mick Herron
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- Are we entering a golden age for short stories?
- Has Amazon deleted your reviews?
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- How to stop innocent people getting shot
- Death by Monet: Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes
- They warned us! Review: Middle England by Jonathan Coe
- Rules for novelists writing rules for novelists
- Liam Glass gets a BookBub recommendation
- Taking risks in the farmers’ market
- The one sentence at the heart of all horror stories
- English noir at the seaside? Review: MJ Arlidge’s thriller ‘Eeeny Meeny’
- Is cozy mystery crime the new hummus?
- Why do we love crime?
- The two myths about keeping and breaking the rules
- Living on the edge
- Peak experience? The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
- How seductive is the call of Sirens – review of Joseph Knox’s debut noir
- Chill out with Chili – Review: Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
- Do criminals have free will – or is it all down to good and bad luck?
- The unlikely rise of Eleanor Oliphant
- The murder to end all literary murders? Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz reviewed
- Feeling overwhelmed? People love David Allen’s “Getting Things Done.” Are they right?
- Who’s afraid of the Maybot? John Crace’s I, Maybot, reviewed for the Library Corner
- Darkness in the Pacific: Review – Black Water by Louise Doughty
- Should we legalise drugs? The Library Corner review: High Society by Ben Elton
- Join the washed-up spooks in Spook Street
- Library corner: Futuristic mayhem – The Outer Spheres by Andrew Wallace
- Can you defend yourself from verbal attack? Review: Verbal Aikido Green & Orange Belt by Luke A Archer
- Bookstore rage: How I came close to losing my temper with an indie bookshop manager
- What book blurbs really mean
- Review – Sex and law In The Matter of Isabel – Paul A Mendelson
- Want to get ahead? Get good habits – Review: Daily Rituals
- Review – What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
- Review – Detective Stories – Peter Washington (ed)
- Review: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- The Breaking of Liam Glass – tabloid truth in fiction
- Could a strong local press have prevented the Grenfell Tower fire?
- Secret Library – Lee, Vonnegut, Niven
- The Genre That Dare Not Speak Its Name – Review: Capital
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- Can we learn from Bono quote on imagination?
- Utter Folly by Paul Bassett Davies – review
- Bye Ray
- How to be a screenwriting success – Not just 10,000 hours part 2
- Tips from Linda Aronson
- The 21st Century Screenplay
- Category: Genre
- What are your favourite horror movies for Halloween?
- Automatic screenplay query letter generator for screenwriters
- How to make a drama out of a story
- The Horrific Sentence
- Avoid the Mistakes Made by Would-be Thriller Screenwriters
- Category: Comedy
- Not the Oscars
- 5 more things I learned from TV (and the movies)
- 10 things I learned from the movies and TV
- Alexei Sayle without the drunken lunches
- 14 things I’ve learned since Corona
- Computer says procrastinate
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- Impress your friends – Your biggest eReader problem solved at last
- Your social media problems solved
- Ukraine elected a comedian president – so what do politicians think of voters?
- Crime writer turned detective – murder mystery review
- Category: Crime
- Pulling crocodile teeth – interview with top crime author Vaseem Khan
- 7 best snow movies
- Nine long years for Julian Assange
- Foul Play – a murder mystery in your own home
- Crime wave caught on camera
- Q&A with Adam Hamdy, crime author, screenwriter and co-founder of Capital Crime
- Who’s to blame for the death of Caroline Flack?
- Angry movies at the Baftas
- Today’s real pirates of the Caribbean
- How truth-telling in Chicago led to a unique new law
- What can we learn from the murder capital of Europe?
- Don’t trust Jed Mercurio – he’s a crime writer
- Review: Two O’Clock Boy – Mark Hill
- The Detective Trap
- What is it about research?
- Policeman mistook drink carton for weapon
- Category: Historical
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- Oy veh! Jewface casting?
- Hallucinations at the Oscars
- Why most people are crap at persuading
- What is the BBC biased against and why?
- New online writers community
- Three things you need to improve your script sales
- Good movie? Where did it come from?
- How to land a top star and the BBC with one treatment
- Nothing beats the lessons of production
- Recycling Oscars is a CROC
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- I’ve done a very silly Green thing
- How to be confident
- How I managed to overcome overwhelm: The joy of lists
- Roll over Beethoven
- I love my clutter
- Unique chance: Verbal Aikido Sept 1
- Happy Holidays (if allowed)
- How do we give this story a happy ending?
- Panto season – oh, yes it is, oh, no…
- How to deal with a verbal attacker – Verbal Aikido
- Keeping a New Year’s resolution in 9 easy steps
- My UnChristmas Message
- 6 (easy) ways to overcome procrastination
- What was I when the cat needed letting in?
- The Boots Scribbling Diary
- What I learned from the World Cup
- Small things can be important too
- Fighting yourself? Here’s a way to stop.
- 12 top tips for quickly learning a language you’d love to know
- Sex, Drugs and Taxes
- Photo of the Month: Modern Aladdin: Jemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakesh, Morocco
- Photo of the month – Nara, Japan
- Photo of the month – Krka Waterfalls, Croatia
- Website disaster overcome!
- Screenplay reality bites… avoiding the reality kiss of death
- What the World Cup taught me about screenwriting
- Back from my writer’s holiday – now I know why I went
- There can’t be a storm, where’s Michael Fish?
- The dangers of digging a pond
- Apologies for being unable to complain
- Category: Photos
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- How to find new ideas? The blank page is your friend
- A lesson in first draft writing
- Fun writing exercise – use it
- Write with conviction in 2013
- How you can use not knowing to write better scripts
- Losing faith in your work?
- Give your future readers a Christmas present
- Is your script predictable?
- Writing successfully in a recession
- Want to succeed? Maybe do the opposite.
- Just one trick for screenwriting success
- How to become a better writer? You may be surprised by the answer.
- Modelling for Writers (not like Naomi Campbell)
- Writers’ Resolutions
- Ways to be a Great Writer: #3
- Ways to be a Great Writer: #2
- It’s not just about 10,000 hours!
- A surprising way to become a Great Writer
- Category: Mental Game
- Category: Procrastination
- Category: Starting
- Category: Training
- Category: Reviews
- Will you be gripped by The Singapore Grip? Review
- Belgravia with batons: Philharmonia, love or hate it?
- The Harris anti-Bafta awards 2019
- So what’s so special about Scrivener? Review – Road Test
- Review: Dead Writers in Rehab
- Top 5 screenwriting clichés of the year awards
- Simple song rises above the battlefield
- Best TV drama, my arse
- Category: Stories
- Category: Technique
- The biggest synopsis mistake that writers make
- Can porn be art? How do you write sex and do it well?
- How to write a script report, and why it’s good for your writing
- If you want to write for cinema, learn to multi-task
- Category: Breaking The Rules
- Till the trumpets crack – going beyond
- How not to write a dark story – The Judge
- Amber ending: How they could have broken the rules and succeeded
- 3 Ways to Make Sure Your Script Stands Out
- New Year’s Resolution: Break a Rule
- Why sometimes you have to write a bad scene
- A Clever, Sneaky Way To Hide Exposition
- Category: Character
- Wants and Needs in writing
- The GOATS method for writing and editing
- 14 ways to develop characters your readers will love
- How to avoid the crime fiction trap
- How to weave research into a screenplay
- Writing a gripping thriller
- Use the Bake Off rule to improve your scripts
- How do writers come up with character names for their scripts?
- How to express yourself without killing your screenwriting career
- 8 ways to make your characters come vividly to life
- Fire Up Your Writing Career
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Screenwriter
- Writing Tip For Creating Rich and Surprising Characters
- Category: Dialogue
- Category: Finishing
- Category: Novels
- What writers can learn from Andy Murray
- How to ask experts to help research your script
- Multitasking
- Canaletto, Gaugin, Cezanne, Dickens and Screenwriting
- Planning to write over the holidays? Here’s a Christmas tip.
- Writer’s Voice
- Wave Your Wooden Leg
- The secret of telling a gripping true story
- The Kindest Cut
- Sometimes the work goes slowly
- Category: Pitching
- How to get what you want – negotiating tricks
- Two simple ways to add power to your pitching
- How to ask
- One question that will help you sell your script
- Pitching: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
- Plan now for Cannes
- A Sure-Fire Way Not To Sell Your First Script
- Power Pitching Tips 2
- Money, Money, Money…
- Ultra-short Pitching Competition – The Answers
- Power Pitching Tips
- Cheltenham Fun and Danger
- Category: Structure
- The Story of Structure: Creating Story Legs part 2
- The Structure of Story. Creating Story Legs Part 1
- Five things they don’t tell you about screenplay structure
- Four simple steps for writing a gripping treatment
- Give your flashbacks the kiss of life
- How to create a great structure – and avoid the decoration
- Category: Treatments
- 12 essentials for writing a film or TV treatment
- Treatment writing tip: It’s not how much, it’s how little!
- Six Things You Need To Know About Treatments
- Three Tips for Writing Treatments
- Want to enjoy writing treatments – find your voice
- Write treatments with style
- Writing Treatments – Get Out Of First Gear
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