Writing Time Episodes Available now
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Finding an Agent
What the literary agent, the publisher, and the book seller, do and want
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Endings
What to do when endings don't suggest themselves, and who to get to read the first draft
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Dialogue
How to write something - dialogue - that you don't want to sound written at all
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Establishing Voice
What is meant by "voice" in fiction? And how can a writer develop their own?
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Developing Characters
Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury and Claire Boylan on giving characters a background
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Setting
How to decide where to set your book - what landscape, milieu, place or time?
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How to Start a Novel
Rose Tremain, Ruth Rendell, and Paul Bailey discuss what makes an idea worthy of a novel
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Advice for Aspiring Writers
Is writing a calling rather than a profession?