Finishing your novel: are we there yet?
Faber Writing Academy scholarship winner Sarah Price offers advice on writing and finishing your novel from tutor Charlotte Wood.
Write your novel with desire
We’ve learnt about desire at the Faber Writing Academy: that crucial, profoundly human element is at the core of what we’re doing when we write a novel. Guest tutor, Kathryn Heyman, enlightened the Writing a Novel class with her thoughts on the necessity of desire in our work.… Read the rest
I’m writing a novel with the Faber Writing Academy. And it’s getting messy.
Many years ago I was told by a YA author that there were two types of writers: settlers and pioneers. According to her, pioneers wrote the whole story from beginning to end without editing or revision.… Read the rest
Writing a Novel: what I’ve learnt about time
Once you commit to a course like this one, you’re forced to carve out the time, to secure it as your own. And what a gorgeous thing it is, to be unbound by life’s usual snarl for a few hours every week, and to be immersed instead in something as inspiring as this!… Read the rest