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How NOT to write….again…

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This article lists the other four and a half things NOT to do as part of the writing process. So, the author has written an out-line, done a first draft, re-written it a couple of times and had a developmental edit … Continue reading

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How NOT to write…….

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…or ‘nine and a half things NOT to do as part of the writing process’. All writers have a process of writing unique to them. I suspect this depends on how someone’s imagination works, how organised she/he is and what … Continue reading

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The Sources of ‘The Village’

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Every work of literature owes something to that which precedes it. No writer can create a story which doesn’t somehow call upon other stories which they have read or absorbed and no reader, of age and experience, can read a story without … Continue reading

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‘Three Days in the Country’

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And so, on Saturday, to the National Theatre to see Patrick Marber’s new, much-lauded version of Turgenev’s ‘Month in the Country’ at the Lyttleton.  Compressed into three hot summer days, this comedy of manners follows the inhabitants of a large Russian … Continue reading

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Vendimia II

Sherry takes centre stage in the grape harvest festivities in Jerez de la Frontera in September. There are many seminars and guided tours, including master classes in sherry tasting and in the marriage between sherry and the best of the local cuisine.  … Continue reading