Sarah Duncan's Blog

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer must put her bum on the seat and her hands on the key board if any writing is to get do...

Alexander McCall Smith gets up at 5.00am every morning and writes 3,000 words until about 8.00am.  Stephen King writes 2,000 words every day...

I really miss my Border Collie, Tan.  Sometimes, when I'm leaving the sitting room, I think I hear his paws scrabbling on the wooden flo...

I like doing Sudoku, the harder the better. The trick is that when one part of the puzzle appears impossible, stop struggling and move on t...

I listened to Adele in concert over Christmas.  Wow, what an amazing voice she has - and still so young.  It's sickening how talented sh...

To be a writer all you have to do is write.   Sounds simple, doesn't it?  I know I'm not alone in that, while I love writing, I find...

Several of the Olympic teams are training at the university sports centre here in Bath. I've been going for my lunchtime swim and marvel...

A funny thing happened to me on Saturday morning. From about 8.30am the phone in Cornwall rang, and kept ringing with calls for me. The sa...

It's dark when I drive home from the university. I use the motorway for some of the way, then drop down through twisting country lanes ...

What's the point of having a blog if you can't have a little rant from time to time? I ban computer discussion from my classes as I ...

People often tell me that they'd like to write a novel but they don't have the time. Actually you don't need much time to write ...

This morning, rather bleary eyed as I was going about my daily ablutions, I reached down to drop a cottonwool ball into the wastepaper bin. ...