Tag: writing
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Within the Stranger
This is about characters. I don’t know about you, but my stories begin with a character, then what befalls that person and that person’s actions, thoughts, whatever, becomes the plot. Which means that the character has to be three-dimensional – a ‘real’, complete person. Which is where so many stories come apart. My hard-drive is […]
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The proclivities of the agent
I got a refusal from an agent. It was sent in the form of an email, and it was sent, wait for it, at ten-thirty on Friday evening. A standard blank ‘no’. Picture it: my agent-who-will-never-be, five gins in and sitting by her fireside having an ‘assassination evening’. By the time she got to me…. […]
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Turn up any Stone
I don’t develop this blog, or spend enough time on it, because I don’t think of myself as a blogger. I don’t tag my posts, generally, because I sort of think of them as private, like diary entries. That’s the kind of self-publicist I am. Yet I come back, and come back: I add new […]
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