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Writers on Writing: Kathryn Heyman on Floodline, truth & courage

It’s a truism that writers come to their work with different methods. We hear of the writer who plots out moment by moment versus the writer who scribbles random lines down for pages and pages with no idea of where they’re going.… Read the rest

Kathryn Heyman July 23, 2014 Author chat, Faber Writing Academy Permalink

Writers on Writing: Getting Started with Kathryn Heyman

Kathryn Heyman offers up these tips on how to battle the blank page, defeat distraction and get started writing:

You’ve always wanted to write a novel. Yet every time to sit down to write it, you are distracted by an overwhelming compulsion to clean the oven, phone your mother or feed the dog.… Read the rest

Kathryn Heyman November 23, 2013 Author chat, Faber Writing Academy Permalink

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