The Story Bazaar

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Hair and shoes. I am told that all writers have ‘tics’. These, apparently, are mine. As tics go, they’re disappointing. They suggest shallowness, vanity and a focus on the superficial.  Where’s the profundity in shoes and hair? What deep meaning in a pair of … Continue reading →

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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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…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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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 →