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  • Novelist Freya Berry (The Dictator’s Wife) shares her five rules for writing an anti-heroine

    Novelist Freya Berry (The Dictator’s Wife) shares her five rules for writing an anti-heroine
    2022/04/13

    Freya Berry’s recent debut The Dictator’s Wife features a chilling portrait of a late eastern European tyrant’s partner, as she prepares to go on trial for her life. Here the author describes her five rules for creating such an intimidating and compromised anti-heroine.


    The Dictator's Wife: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/freya-berry/the-dictators-wife/9781472276339/


    @FreyaBBooks


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    33 分
  • Novelist Zoë Somerville on how to use the countryside to unsettle your readers

    Novelist Zoë Somerville on how to use the countryside to unsettle your readers
    2022/04/01

    Zoë Somerville's recent novel The Marsh House concerns a single mother's Christmas visit to the creepy Norfolk coast, and her reading a life of a previous resident of her dilapidated cottage while nature does its best to frighten her. Here she shares her Five Rules of Writing on how to create pure rural fear.


    The Marsh House: https://headofzeus.com/books/9781838934675


    https://zoesomerville.com/


    @zessomerville


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    34 分
  • Author and journalist Christina Patterson on how to write a memoir

    Author and journalist Christina Patterson on how to write a memoir
    2022/03/09

    Writer Christina Patterson, whose most recent book is Outside, the Sky is Blue, a crystal-clear account of the havoc visited on her family by illness, on her Five Rules of Writing memoir.


    https://christinapatterson.co.uk/


    Outside, the Sky is Blue: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/christina-patterson/outside-the-sky-is-blue/9781472282651/


    @queenchristina_


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    35 分
  • Novelist Jan Carson on how to write about Northern Ireland

    Novelist Jan Carson on how to write about Northern Ireland
    2022/01/05

    Jan Carson, whose most recent novel The Raptures concerns a spate of deaths at a rural Protestant Northern Ireland primary school, on her five rules for writing about the province.


    @JanCarson7280


    The Raptures: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115884/the-raptures/9780857525758.html


    https://www.jancarson.co.uk/


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    36 分
  • Music biographer Richard Balls on how to interview difficult people

    Music biographer Richard Balls on how to interview difficult people
    2021/12/21

    Richard Balls, author of the superb Shane MacGowan biography, A Furious Devotion, on his five rules for interviewing someone who has little desire to cooperate.


    @RichardBalls


    A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan: https://omnibuspress.com/products/a-furious-devotion-the-life-of-shane-macgowan-published-on-7th-october-2021


    Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine: https://strong-words.co.uk/


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    41 分
  • Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson on how to write idly

    Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson on how to write idly
    2021/12/02

    Tom Hodgkinson, whose magazine is devoted to the quest for maximum satisfaction from minimum effort, on where writing fits with this equation.


    @idler


    The Idler: https://www.idler.co.uk/


    An Idler's Manual: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/IDLERS-MANUAL-by-TOM-HODKINSON/9781901170344


    Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine: https://strong-words.co.uk/


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    39 分
  • Debut novelist Virginia Feito on how to write an unlikeable character

    Debut novelist Virginia Feito on how to write an unlikeable character
    2021/10/06

    First-time author of the sublime Mrs March, Virginia Feito shares her five rules on writing "a gloriously grotesque antiheroine."


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    31 分
  • Journalist and author Lesley-Ann Jones on how to write a rock biography

    Journalist and author Lesley-Ann Jones on how to write a rock biography
    2021/09/20

    Lesley-Ann Jones, Fleet Street survivor and writer of the recent Love of my Life about the relationships of Freddie Mercury, on how to write a rock biography.


    Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine: https://strong-words.co.uk/


    Buy Love Of My Life here: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/lesley-ann-jones/love-of-my-life/9781529362343/


    @LAJWriter


    https://www.lesleyannjones.com/


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    48 分