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How to Embrace Your Inner Critic

How to Embrace Your Inner Critic

Posted on 24th May 20214th October 2021Author hughesfelicityPosted in Motivation, Writing tips3 Replies

While not quite on a par with childbirth or interrogation by the Spanish Inquisition, finding your own voice as a writer can nevertheless be an excruciatingly painful process. Because what nobody tells you from the outset is that you suck. All writers suck when they start out. Well, okay, maybe not literary prodigies like Sally Rooney.…

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How to Write a Cracking Query Letter

How to Write a Cracking Query Letter

Posted on 23rd May 20214th October 2021Author hughesfelicityPosted in How to approach an agent5 Replies

If asked what their novel is about, novice writers either fall completely silent or waffle on for hours. What do you mean, what’s it about? It’s about everything under the sun, its themes are complex, its language rich with accumulated life experience, its pathos is heart breaking… At this point, a bemused but supportive friend…

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How to write a killer bio

How to write a killer bio

Posted on 22nd May 20214th October 2021Author hughesfelicityPosted in Writing tips2 Replies

Unless you’re criminally insane, or Donald Trump, you’re probably not in the habit of talking about yourself in the third person. So it’s no surprise that many writers hate penning an author bio. When I polled Twitter about bio writing recently, the following response seemed to sum up everybody’s feelings perfectly: “I’d rather chew on…

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