Writing until the light goes out

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"So, you think you're a writer?" - part 2: Who do you write for?

May 14, 2024
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Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose

In a previous post we looked at the first of three fundamental questions you need to ask yourself before you can go on to analyse whether what you are writing is appropriate for the kind of writer you are — and, in fact, to validate that you are ‘a writer’ at all.

That initial question was Why do you write?

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So you think you're a writer?

Ian Gouge
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May 2, 2024
So you think you're a writer?

As a creative writing mentor I am often asked to define the ‘right way’ of doing something, especially when people have a preconceived idea in terms of what it is they have to write. The latter is most commonly evidenced in the people who believe they must write a novel. If they don’t, how can they possibl…

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