Tag Archives: Studying Creative Writing
Novel writing: Self-belief and Staying power (Part 1)
This week, I thought I’d take a break from the usual Virtual Book Club format. Instead, I put the same question to a number of authors. “A novel requires stamina and grit,” says author Oyinkan Braithwaite. “You need a certain kind of faith in yourself and in what you are doing to bang out 40,000-plus…
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Virtual Book Club: Lorna Fergusson introduces her short story ‘Salt’, part of the Distant Echoes collection
This week on Virtual Book Club, it is the turn of Lorna Fergusson whose historical short story ‘Salt’ won the HNS London 2014 short story award, and its publication in the short story collection Distant Echoes. Lorna is a novelist, editor and writing coach: she runs Fictionfire Literary Consultancy and teaches on various Oxford University…
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