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Writing Time Episodes

  1.

    Finding an Agent

    What the literary agent, the publisher, and the book seller, do and want

  2. Endings

    What to do when endings don't suggest themselves, and who to get to read the first draft

  3. Dialogue

    How to write something - dialogue - that you don't want to sound written at all

  4. Establishing Voice

    What is meant by "voice" in fiction? And how can a writer develop their own?

  5. Setting

    How to decide where to set your book - what landscape, milieu, place or time?

  6. Developing Characters

    Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury and Claire Boylan on giving characters a background

  7. How to Start a Novel

    Rose Tremain, Ruth Rendell, and Paul Bailey discuss what makes an idea worthy of a novel

  8. Advice for Aspiring Writers

    Is writing a calling rather than a profession?