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What is ‘literary fiction’? What is ‘literary’ fiction? And what is literature…?

There’s a difference, I think, between “Literary fiction”, “literary” fiction and literature. ‘Literary fiction’ is a term to guide a market for novels. Typically that market prefers stories about the internal struggles of characters. Typically the story will allow significant… Continue Reading →

What’s on the opening page of your novel? – A first page check list…

Check listers – the life-saving nerds A check list. Not the most flamboyantly creative solution to a writer’s journey, but a pretty useful base camp. Masters of a craft of course have an auto-checklist – just as any experienced traveller… Continue Reading →

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