Notes from the Slushpile

Notes from the Slushpile is a team blog maintained by eight friends who also happen to be children's authors at different stages of the publishing journey.

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Showing posts with label Writing a Novel. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Writing a Novel. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Learning to Write - my journey in How To books

IKEA manuals. Mmm. By Candy Gourlay My husband often makes fun of me because I like reading instruction manuals. Before I can even begi...

Monday, 25 March 2013

How to start a new novel : "As long as you have a word, there's never a blank page"

By Candy Gourlay Last week on Radio 4's Open Book, Whitbread winning author Kate Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum) declare...

Friday, 1 February 2013

Writing Inspiration from the Making of Les Miserables the Movie

By Candy Gourlay So aside from watching lots of Making Of documentaries while waiting for comments on my manuscript, I've also been...

Friday, 25 January 2013

Why you have no idea what you're doing

By Candy Gourlay First, let us all take a moment to gaze upon Harrison Ford in his prime.

Friday, 4 January 2013

Keep Calm It's Only Novel Panic

By Emma Greenwood Guest Blogger Here it comes again: my regular dose of ‘novel panic’, ‘novel angst’, ‘novel just not good enough, ne...

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