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Becoming a better writer #4

Becoming a better writer #4

If, like me, you have you been “writing a book” for ages but, you find yourself doing anything other than sitting down and actually writing, you might find this post useful. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I actually want to be a creative writer. While I claim to love creative writing, I rarely get on with it.   Does this happen to you too? While I write a fair amount of non-fiction, my creative writing has…

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Becoming a better writer: 5 books I want to read this year

Becoming a better writer: 5 books I want to read this year

Becoming a better writer involves many things, including one of my favourite pastimes: reading. While I have always read, I have noticed that since I have been writing more fiction, I have become more demanding about what I read. By that I mean, if a book isn’t doing it for me, I’m likely to give up on it a lot earlier than I would have done before. I’ve also become more demanding about the writer’s mastery of language. Perhaps, this…

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