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My Kind of Writing: A Timely Talk: Leigh Russell on How to Keep Readers Turning the Page
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My Kind of Writing. Tuesday, 30 October 2012. A Timely Talk: Leigh Russell on How to Keep Readers Turning the Page. The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB. How to Keep Readers Turning the Page. Exploring techniques for sustaining a reader’s interest. Hosted by Leigh Russell. Tuesday 23 October or Wednesday 24 October. 11am - 4.30pm. Leigh Russell is the author of a bestselling series of crime thrillers. Will be published in 2013. New York Journal of Books. Setting; characters; plots;...
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My Kind of Writing: The Original and Best :The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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My Kind of Writing. Thursday, 4 October 2012. The Original and Best :The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Some members of the library crime reading group were put off by the length of this book. For me and others Wilkie Collins'. Was such an enjoyable read that length wasn't a problem - except when it came to carrying it, of course. Wilkie Collins was a close friend of Dickens - The Moonstone first appeared as episodes in Dicken's magazine 'Household Words.' While weekly keep-'em-reading nature of the pu...
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My Kind of Writing: A Chinese Hospital
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My Kind of Writing. Monday, 6 October 2014. ECP (English Coaching Paper (sic) , where I worked from Aug 2003 to June 2004. A lunch time football game on the frozen river in January. I'm working on the third draft of 'Hotpot and Dumplings', my book about living in the remote dongbei area of China. That it's the third draft makes me feel better, because it's almost ten years since I started. The X-ray was to be done in the main building, to which we were escorted by a young woman who happened to be passing...
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My Kind of Writing: September 2012
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My Kind of Writing. Thursday, 20 September 2012. Acting Shakespeare: Roger Rees at The Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue. This evening was memorable for the kerfuffle involved before we even arrived at the theatre. Nothing to do with transport delays, either. For Tuesday I'd made a successful bid to review Roger Rees's new show on opening night so it was an good opportunity to use them. Two-course pre-theatre meals for about £12 are widely offered in the West End. Sure enough, when we told the waitress we wante...
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My Kind of Writing: February 2013
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My Kind of Writing. Sunday, 24 February 2013. I've neglected this blog recently, but that’s set to change. It’s not so much that I’ll neglect my other blog. 8211;hopefully I’ll continue to review plays - but current projects will. A busy week brought two surprises:. I learned I’m to teach a day course on Pride and Prejudice. And, for the very first time, one of my short stories appeared in a magazine. To mark the 200th anniversary since publication. 8216;We’re all Jane-ites now’:. Are you a ‘text-i...
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My Kind of Writing: August 2012
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My Kind of Writing. Wednesday, 29 August 2012. I Should Live so Long: One Hundred Years of Solitude. I learn foreign languages with the aim of reading the literature. The drawback is it takes years. In fact, the only language with which I feel confident with is French, which I learned at school. I remember a holiday in France with no access to English books when I read 'Madam Bovary'. There must have been lots of words I didn't know, but it helped that I'd already read an English version. So far so good,...
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My Kind of Writing: November 2012
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My Kind of Writing. Thursday, 22 November 2012. For Me, Too:. Raffles and the Golden Opportunity. By Victoria Glendinning: a talk at Asia House. Award winning biographer, Victoria Glendinning is Vice-President of English PEN, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of five biographies. The pin could hardly miss Singapore- it was a half-page ad. But surely the salary was a misprint? No, what I took as a too-lavish use of noughts turned out to be true. I passed the tests and intervie...
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My Kind of Writing: March 2013
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My Kind of Writing. Wednesday, 27 March 2013. Dangerous Territory : Out-of-Town Author Events. I like to go to the final event of the. Each year - the one with the awards, that is, not the one with the pricey dinner. This year, Hilary Mantel. Would be presented with a special prize on Sunday 24th March. I'd heard her speak in London when. Was on the Booker shortlist, but I was too slow and the event sold out before I checked my diary. Luckily, I could buy tickets to see Val McDermid. I'd have better luck...
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My Kind of Writing: Two Nice Surprises
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My Kind of Writing. Sunday, 24 February 2013. I've neglected this blog recently, but that’s set to change. It’s not so much that I’ll neglect my other blog. 8211;hopefully I’ll continue to review plays - but current projects will. A busy week brought two surprises:. I learned I’m to teach a day course on Pride and Prejudice. And, for the very first time, one of my short stories appeared in a magazine. To mark the 200th anniversary since publication. 8216;We’re all Jane-ites now’:. Are you a ‘text-i...