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Monday, 25 June 2012

Keeping The Reader Within The Story World

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I was reading a charming story for children about some little mice when - wham!  suddenly I was jerked out of the fantasy.  The mice were wa...
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Friday, 22 June 2012

Why Faking It Is Better Than The Real Thing

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Recently the True Love series ran on television, but I didn't watch it despite the impressive cast of actors.  The advance publicity wa...
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Thursday, 21 June 2012

6 Ways Of Using 'Find and Replace' You Might Not Have Thought Of

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Like most people I use Word as my word processing software. You'll find the Find/Replace button if you go to Edit on the top bar, the...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

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How do you change a duvet cover?  I always feed one corner of the duvet into the new cover, then hold it securely while I do the other corne...
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Being A Writer Shouldn't Be Depressing, Honest

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Someone recently got in touch about my blog saying nice things, but adding that they found it 'also a bit depressing sometimes when you ...
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Monday, 18 June 2012

Describing Places

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The holidays are looming and lots of writers are heading off for places with notebooks hoping to capture some local colour that they can use...
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Friday, 15 June 2012

3 Time Sucks That Can Be Dumped For Writing

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Which would you rather have on your tombstone: 'watched the complete boxed set of Mad Men' or 'wrote a novel'? Writers wat...
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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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