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Anthony Burgess – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. No, it’s not some incomprehensible baby-speak gurgled by a dribbling infant somewhere (preferably a long way from me) but the acronym for National Novel Writing Month, which is almost upon us once more. The brainchild of Chris Baty back in 1999, this annual creative writing contest sets its competitors the daunting challenge of writing a fifty-thousand word novel in one month. Day, for one whole month. And at the end of this you should havefifty-thousand words of drivel? All of the above?
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editor – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. Who Needs An Editor? To Edit (verb): to prepare (a book, newspaper, programme, film etc.) for publication or broadcasting, especially by making corrections or alterations. Don’t think of it as cheating. Don’t think that everything that leaves your laptop has to be perfect right from the start. And don’t think that somehow the end product won’t still be yours anymore after your editor has muscled in on the party. Writing is a process: layer upon layer upon layer. And the more...This is what ...
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Audrey Niffenegger – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. No, it’s not some incomprehensible baby-speak gurgled by a dribbling infant somewhere (preferably a long way from me) but the acronym for National Novel Writing Month, which is almost upon us once more. The brainchild of Chris Baty back in 1999, this annual creative writing contest sets its competitors the daunting challenge of writing a fifty-thousand word novel in one month. Day, for one whole month. And at the end of this you should havefifty-thousand words of drivel? All of the above?
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Cornish – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. What’s In A Name? The real Cornish village of Pendeen. Coming from Cornwall myself, I really should have known this, I suppose. But worse: with a little more Googling, I found that fellow Cornwall-based author Patrick Gayle had also recently used the village of Pendeen as a setting for his 2012 novel A Perfectly Good Man. Books started out as Ronald or that Rosalie was originally to be called Carol? And Twilight’s original title was actually Forks? Talking of title changes, Joseph Heller’s ...
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Drowning – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover. Or rather, do judge a book by its cover! Ever wondered what difference a good designer makes to the process of designing a book cover? Just look at the before and after cover versions of ‘Drowning On Dry Land’. My thanks, again, to Tracy Roberts for her wonderful design skills! After seeing what a professional designer has done with the covers of my books makes me realise I should definitely stick to the words instead! Writing Then and Now. NEWS & VIEWS.
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NEWS & VIEWS. Writing Then and Now. So what, or who, are those key players that have most shaped my writing? Let me see if I can chart the path from my first (long) short story at age nine (Tammy and Kim: a tale of two orphaned sisters who run away from an abusive home) to The Poldeen Trilogy (a trio of books set in my home county of Cornwall) aged mumble, mumble much older. Everything changes. Just keep going forward and see where it takes you. Can’t Find What You’re Looking For? Writing Then and Now.
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book – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. Who Needs An Editor? To Edit (verb): to prepare (a book, newspaper, programme, film etc.) for publication or broadcasting, especially by making corrections or alterations. Don’t think of it as cheating. Don’t think that everything that leaves your laptop has to be perfect right from the start. And don’t think that somehow the end product won’t still be yours anymore after your editor has muscled in on the party. Writing is a process: layer upon layer upon layer. And the more...This is what ...
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awesome – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. More Awesome Opening Lines. What keeps those pages turning? Since my last blog. I have been thinking a lot about awesome opening lines wondering what it is that hooks us when we open a book and encourages us to keep reading. So, I have decided to compile my own (very personal and ever shifting) top ten. What I realise from whittling the contenders down to just ten is that they fall into two camps: the oddly intriguing and the darkly unnerving. Here are the oddly intriguing:. 2009): I am dead.
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Dan Brown – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. No, it’s not some incomprehensible baby-speak gurgled by a dribbling infant somewhere (preferably a long way from me) but the acronym for National Novel Writing Month, which is almost upon us once more. The brainchild of Chris Baty back in 1999, this annual creative writing contest sets its competitors the daunting challenge of writing a fifty-thousand word novel in one month. Day, for one whole month. And at the end of this you should havefifty-thousand words of drivel? All of the above?
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EL James – T A Blezard
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NEWS & VIEWS. No, it’s not some incomprehensible baby-speak gurgled by a dribbling infant somewhere (preferably a long way from me) but the acronym for National Novel Writing Month, which is almost upon us once more. The brainchild of Chris Baty back in 1999, this annual creative writing contest sets its competitors the daunting challenge of writing a fifty-thousand word novel in one month. Day, for one whole month. And at the end of this you should havefifty-thousand words of drivel? All of the above?