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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Be Careful of Your Default Settings

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Last week I asked a friend to read my current work in progress (and it IS progressing, albeit slowly). She returned it and I waited for the...
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Friday, 21 October 2011

World Creation

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All writers go in for world creation, it comes with the territory. What is contained on the pages is fiction, the product of the writer...
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Friday, 23 September 2011

Keeping Description Going

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Description falls into the same category as exercise and meals when dieting: little and often. At feedback feedback sessions I frequently se...
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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Creating Pictures as You Write

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One of the problems of starting out as a writer is similar to one of the problems of starting out as a driver: you over compensate.  If a ne...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Detail Is Everything In Description

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My Friday class were brilliant last week. I was blown away by their response to the exercise and I think we all were amazed at the quality ...
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Monday, 26 July 2010

Action in Prose

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Description can get very, very dull. The best way to liven it up is to put some action in it. For example... - It was a beautiful morning. ...
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Sarah Duncan
I've written five novels, the most recent being Kissing Mr Wrong (shortlisted for the RNA novel of the Year 2011) and A Single to Rome (longlisted for RNA Novel of the Year 2010). I'm a full time writer, but I also like teaching creative writing which I've done for the Universities of Oxford and Bristol, and for ASE which is a branch campus of Franklin and Marshall College, USA. I'm the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Bath - I must be growing up... About a million years ago I was an actor and played Vicky, Rodney's girlfriend, in Only Fools and Horses. I divide my life between two of the most beautiful places in the UK, Bath and St Ives and can't believe how lucky I am. www.sarahduncan.co.uk
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