Category: writing
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Into the woods
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently, about how hard it is to veer away from what you know. The daughter of some of my best friends turned 18 last month, and I wrote her a letter of life advice. She wants to become a professional musician, or at least work…
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What’s it like in there?
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Do you have certain things that take you right back to being a teenager? Maybe it’s that one song on the album that you played over and over, or for certain generations, the smell of anything dewberry from The Body Shop, but we all have something, which sweeps us up…
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Matchmaking for writers
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I’m in the process of submitting a novel to agents at the moment. A fun exercise which means you fail and fail and fail until you succeed and then you don’t have to consider the failures again, presumably until the next time. It’s all about tweaking the submission (and hopefully,…