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The Five Rules Of Writing Strong Words Magazine
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I'm Ed Needham, editor of the fabulous literary magazine Strong Words, and this is my podcast, The Five Rules of Writing. In each episode, I speak to a most excellent writer in a particular genre about how they do it.
If you'd like to know more about Strong Words and specifically how to subscribe, head to http://strong-words.co.uk/.
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Novelist Freya Berry (The Dictator’s Wife) shares her five rules for writing an anti-heroine
Freya Berry’s recent debut The Dictator’s Wife features a chilling portrait of a late eastern European tyrant’s partner, as she prepares to go on trial for her life. Here the author describes her five rules for creating such an intimidating and compromised anti-heroine.
The Dictator's Wife: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/freya-berry/the-dictators-wife/9781472276339/
@FreyaBBooks
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Novelist Zoë Somerville on how to use the countryside to unsettle your readers
Zoë Somerville's recent novel The Marsh House concerns a single mother's Christmas visit to the creepy Norfolk coast, and her reading a life of a previous resident of her dilapidated cottage while nature does its best to frighten her. Here she shares her Five Rules of Writing on how to create pure rural fear.
The Marsh House: https://headofzeus.com/books/9781838934675
https://zoesomerville.com/
@zessomerville
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Author and journalist Christina Patterson on how to write a memoir
Writer Christina Patterson, whose most recent book is Outside, the Sky is Blue, a crystal-clear account of the havoc visited on her family by illness, on her Five Rules of Writing memoir.
https://christinapatterson.co.uk/
Outside, the Sky is Blue: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/christina-patterson/outside-the-sky-is-blue/9781472282651/
@queenchristina_
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Novelist Jan Carson on how to write about Northern Ireland
Jan Carson, whose most recent novel The Raptures concerns a spate of deaths at a rural Protestant Northern Ireland primary school, on her five rules for writing about the province.
@JanCarson7280
The Raptures: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115884/the-raptures/9780857525758.html
https://www.jancarson.co.uk/
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Music biographer Richard Balls on how to interview difficult people
Richard Balls, author of the superb Shane MacGowan biography, A Furious Devotion, on his five rules for interviewing someone who has little desire to cooperate.
@RichardBalls
A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan: https://omnibuspress.com/products/a-furious-devotion-the-life-of-shane-macgowan-published-on-7th-october-2021
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Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson on how to write idly
Tom Hodgkinson, whose magazine is devoted to the quest for maximum satisfaction from minimum effort, on where writing fits with this equation.
@idler
The Idler: https://www.idler.co.uk/
An Idler's Manual: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/IDLERS-MANUAL-by-TOM-HODKINSON/9781901170344
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