Sarah Duncan's Blog

Thinking about advice, and the comments after the last post, and a little niggle of doubt started to form somewhere in my gut.  I'm guil...

There's that old saying, those who can, do, those who can't, teach.  I obviously don't think that's true - I LOVE teaching, ...

I'm being side-tracked at the moment by sun and beaches and cream teas.  Which leads into the riveting discussion about the order you pu...

I loved my main tutor on my MA course. He gave me terrible advice.  Of course, he didn't mean for it to be terrible advice, but it was -...

When I was doing my MA I asked if we were going to have any talks on craft techniques.  'Oh no,' came the lofty answer.  'We ass...

One of the real joys about writing is when you write a section and realise that, without knowing it, you've set up the situation beforeh...

I was at a dinner party a few months ago when the bloke next to me, on hearing I was a novelist started to tell me all about the novel he wa...