🇺🇸-born, 🇬🇧-based, novelist.📖 Writing, travel, culture and more. Always holding "auditions" – so be careful or you may end up a character in “1797”…and perhaps an evil one.🎭 (And why do I suspect some of you might like that latter in particular?)😂
As I go at it again, my now late uncle’s words come back to me regularly: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.” I love it. Come sometime in 2019, I hope you will love this, too.
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The term “passive-aggressive” may well have been coined by someone observing a jealous author reviewing another’s work.
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“If we may return to the subject of our discussion. Ms. Markle had been on a television drama on cable on the USA network…”
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Every page is important, but for a writer (in my humble opinion) “Page 1” is probably the scariest one.
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…and my uncle jumps to my mind and I imagine him lecturing me how this needs to be turned into a screenplay and he knows a screenwriter and she’s fantastic and I think yep he always knows a woman and he asks me where did I get those women geez…
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The Sun Also Rises is said to be probably his best novel. Interestingly, too, it is his first. (Not something most writers wish for themselves.)
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Instagram as well as other social media platforms are just not nearly as flexible or personal as a blog.
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No invading army ever took Pembroke Castle. Needless to say the café inside was never reached either, so no conqueror ever enjoyed one of its excellent cappuccinos.
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You may well be reading this with headphones in. I dare to wonder what music you associate with me?
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When I saw that retweeted into my timeline the other day, what was my reaction?
I could only think… here’s another idea: read a history book.
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