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Resilient Thinking
2019 – A new year on the Sofa
If I leave it any longer it’ll be too late to wish you a happy new year, so consider it done – I hope you had a good break over the holidays. This is just a quick note to say I’m back, at least in theory… like many, I’m not a fan of January but … Continue reading
How do you know if a novel’s worth writing?
A few weeks ago I was walking along Newport Sands in Pembrokeshire with a clear head and a feeling of serenity – unfortunately it didn’t last long. I recently had a big breakthrough in the first draft of my new novel and want to do nothing but write, but a couple of very stressful things … Continue reading
Resilient Thinking and First Drafts
As Hemingway famously said, ‘the first draft of anything is garbage.’ (I always thought he said ‘shit’ but anyway.) And as he also famously said, ‘writing is rewriting’. Now I am not a particular fan of Hemingway nor of writing aphorisms, which I have learned to approach on a ‘pick your own’ basis, (as in … Continue reading
My new novel SCENT – out in paperback on 19 May 2022
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