Posts Tagged as ‘reading’

July 21, 2008

Feeding your brain

I could wax lyrical about the importance of good nutrition- though I don’t know of a writer that doesn’t reach for a chocolate bar, or fourteen cups of coffee, or anything fake and orange when the deadlines looming,the books due in and you have seven chapters left to write in 20 hours…

But actually there [...]

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June 25, 2008

Love that lasts a lifetime

Sometimes the stories we read seem almost unbelievable. They have a sense of perfection about them, or they are so outlandishly outstanding we think it couldn’t possibly be true. But again and again you read true stories of human endeavour, of love and of bravery and you remember our stories are all really just a [...]

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May 26, 2008

To write you first must read

It may not be rocket science but it is one of the most important factors in becoming a good writer. Reading other people’s ideas, allowing yourself to escape in a book or story line, researching using print books instead of the Internet…these all add to developing yourself as a writer.
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