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Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Recommend an historical novel, win a signed copy of Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction

Update: 27th June 2016: The competition is now closed, and I announced the winners in this post. Thank you very much to everyone who entered; it's a fantastic list of recommendations which my bedside table does not thank you for, but I do. I would love this post to become a resource for the future, so do feel free to add more recommendations, and comment on other people's. I'll be back to post my two penn'orth in a few days. *** To celebrate the publication of Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction, which is now also out in the USA,... Read more →

Posted at 07:29 PM in Books and reading, Competitions, Genres, Historical Fiction, The Itch of Writing Bookshelf, THE TIME-AND-SPACE MACHINE, THE TRAVELLING LIBRARY, You and your writing | | Comments (43)

Monday, 16 May 2016

Giving feedback: how to do it, how to make it really useful

I blogged a few years back about how to process feedback, but the funny thing is that many writers find giving feedback more difficult than receiving it. Often, they're some of the nicest people: they're worried about hurting their fellow thin-skinned writers' feelings and know that hurting their confidence can be be genuinely damaging. Sometimes they're some of the most self-centred people: they can't be bothered to put in the mental work to understand what another writer is trying to do, and can only "correct" in terms of how they'd do it themselves. I've also given general tips about how... Read more →

Posted at 06:13 PM in A Writer's Life, Academic Creative Writing, Courses & Workshops, Teaching Writing, THE ROUND TABLE, THE TOOLKIT, THE WORKBENCH, You and your writing | | Comments (7)

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