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You can learn a lot about writing through direct observation from life, like artists do when they work on a still life or a landscape, and that's what this book is all about. It's made up of practical activities covering writing techniques like rhythm, sense of place, word pictures, character, and dialogue. Each section includes short exercises, storytelling tips, research and information gathering activities, as well as suggestions for design...

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Grandma's stories, '…would always start in the place where we were, ' and so it is with Unusual Places. Human remains are concealed in the Greenwich Tunnel in a world where London is a prison, a market is the setting for sexual and sensual awakenings, a professional picnicker finds love. Louise Tondeur's stories skip along, rich with detail and musical prose, only to trip us up with turns and surprises: the unusual lurks in the most ordinary o...

The Writing HabitYou are a writer if you make a habit of writing. Full stop. Using this book, you will to learn more about the habit of writing, and how to establish a regular creative practice. You will think about how to write, and how to create, and you'll to try out you lots of practical activities along the way. You will end up with your own dynamic writers' toolkit - a flexible set of tools you can use again and again in your writing lif...

Take small stepsFind Time to Write is based on the small steps approach to time management. In a nutshell, you can take any task and break it down into smaller and smaller steps until it becomes manageable. You can do small things in your everyday life to help you achieve your goals. This book applies the small steps approach to the writing life. If you want to write, you don't need a big idea, you need to find the time to turn up and do it. T...