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Join me at the Charroux Festival this summer

June 25, 2015

This summer, I’m delighted to have been invited to appear at the first Charroux Literary Festival in France – and I’d love to see you there! The Festival, a bilingual literary festival,will take place in the medieval town of Charroux in the Poitou-Charentes region of South West France from Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th August – the August Bank …

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Annual reading review, part one: looking back on a reading year as an NQT

January 6, 2015

In his wonderful book The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, David Ulin writes that reading is “an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more than for us to disengage. It connects us at the deepest …

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Time management for writers: ten ways of finding time to write when you have no time

January 31, 2012

This post about time management for writers originally appeared on my very first blog ‘Stubborn World’.   It tackles the thorny issue of how to find time to write in a busy life, something that so many of us struggle with.  I do hope that you find some of these ideas inspiring. 1. Set aside …

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My favourite productivity tips for writers

June 28, 2011

One of the main questions that I get asked in my work as a writing coach is “how can I become more productive as a writer?” Modern life is full of distractions and most of us are juggling many roles at one time.  It is hard sometimes to set aside our other commitments and take …

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