Don’t fear the rewrite!

T hey say everyone has a book inside them. (If you’re drawn to quests or escapades you may have a whole shelf ’s worth.) But experiencing real-life events is one thing; turning that into unputdownable

Horror is a remarkably flexible genre – one that can take all sorts of forms. From the subtleties of the ghost story all the way through to the flat-out grossness of body horror, along with its mallea

I first heard the term ‘autofiction’ in December 2021 on a residential Arvon course for potential novelists. It was the first time I had spent a significant chunk of my own money on my writing educati

…and they all lived happily ever after? It’s such a great feeling, isn’t it, when we are able to type The End after the last sentence of even the very first draft of a novel? We’ll start to hope that

Being fearless in midlife is hard, because to be fearless we might have to change or challenge parts of our identity that we have leaned on for years: things we were taught about ourselves as a child,

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