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TEN TIPS FOR READING LIKE A WRITER : how to tackle the ‘Read, read, READ’ that everyone tells you to do.
EASY READING IS HARD WRITING : but hard looking at easy reading can help you write better. (£)
WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL Part Five: Reading Like a Writer
READ A BAD BOOK? THINK OF IT AS A GOOD ONE : because even a bad book can be good for your own writing.
RIFFING, COPYING, PARODYING AND PASTICHING : why playing with other writers’ writing isn’t just fun, it can really help your own. (£)
MOTIVES AND CUES, REASONS AND PASSIONS : how Gielgud, Burton and Hamlet point towards the uses of Internal Family Systems thinking for understanding what we read and watch (£)
BOOKS FOR WRITERS: a partial view and a partial list : whether you’re looking for help with writing sex, or for a present to give the peculiar creature called a writer who you seem to have spawned or made friends with, here are some of my favourites.
