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How do you feel about large forests in rural Sweden? Or deserts, for that matter, or large cities? Actually, I really don’t care what you, the writer, feel about any of them. (Unless, of course, [...]

  If we read like writers, we find constant lessons – both good and bad – which will aid our writing. Here’s a lovely one from one of my favourites, Maggie O’Farrell. In This Must Be the [...]

I read a manuscript recently in which the protagonist gazed out at the sun-filled park. Okay, fair enough, perhaps it gives us some sense of his world … but not much, let’s be honest. There was [...]