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Writing a five fingered exercise

29 Mar ’11
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When I was a small child, just starting school, my favorite moment in each day was the one, after we’d finished our tea, when my father went into the front room. He’d say to me, ‘don’t pull the curtains and don’t switch on the light.’ Then he’d sit at his piano in the last of...

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Fireside Reading

15 Nov ’10
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Fireside Reading

The clocks have gone back, the ghosts have flitted among us and returned to their thinly veiled otherworld, the Guys have gone up in a slightly anachronistic blaze of political glory and it’s time make a hot chocolate and curl up in the warm with a good book. Below is a list of some...

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Walking through stories

26 Jan ’10
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Many writers walk to invent their stories. Dickens apparently wrote most mornings and walked every afternoon. I think his characters and their senarios walked with him, ready for their creation by pen the following morning. I’ve used this method for years. It doesn’t matter if the surrounds are urban or rural, but naturally it’s...

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