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The growth of a novel
If you missed Part 5, please click here: https://wordpress.com/post/somersetwriters.wordpress.com/1860 Part 6 How the cover was designed. ‘You can’t tell a book by its cover,’ can you? I don’t know who first said this but it is patently untrue. Just walk in Waterspoons, thousands of books, paperback and hard back. Every hardback has a…
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The growth of a novel
If you missed Part 3, please click here: The Growth of a Novel Part 4 Self publishing It’s all very well writing either for yourself or writing for a small group and ending up dissecting your writing, editing and changing it but how do you know if it is any good – and what is…
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The Growth of a Novel
If you have missed Part 2, please click here: The growth of a novel Part 3 The writing group. Here I was, retired, putting a lot of effort into recovering from a stroke, writing a lot and getting creatively bored; what to do? I had heard of the University of the Third Age ( U3A ).…
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Two boys from Brighton
Like many writers, I have been trying to allow my hidden novel to get written and to see the light of day for several years. The plot and characters have been hidden in my head with the characters begging to be allowed out to express themselves through the written word. This has been a slow…