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Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Mixing it Up - Challenging My Unconscious Biases to Add Diversity to My Writing

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By Nick Cross Photo by Mike Petrucci on Unsplash I’ve spent the last year adapting a YA novel (that I originally wrote in 2012) int...
Monday, 30 November 2020

In Praise of Writers' Resilience

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by Em Lynas Part 1. Pre-Published Rejection Requires Resilience Writers for children, like any writers, encounter rejection at every s...
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Saturday, 18 July 2020

What if this is the Last Book You’ll Ever Write?

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By Nick Cross Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash Not to get too morbid here, but it’s definitely going to happen that you’ll stop...
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Friday, 19 July 2019

Making things up: going out of order

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by Teri Terry Part 6 in Marking Things up: a blog series about the creative process When you are writing, do you start at the beginning...
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Friday, 21 July 2017

Coming Out

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By Nick Cross Photo by Ruffroot Creative How long did it take you to pluck up the courage to tell someone you wanted to be a writer?...
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Friday, 31 March 2017

Can Acting Make You a Better Writer?

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By Nick Cross If you’ve been religiously following the news updates from Slushpile HQ (you have, haven’t you?), then you’ll remember t...
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Monday, 6 February 2017

Living in the Past

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By Nick Cross I've always been suspicious of nostalgia - that intense yearning for the past that often seems to be an excuse for not...
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Monday, 24 October 2016

The Modern Nomad – A Guide to Writing Away from Home

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By Nick Cross I’m sure there are many of you who spend the day in your home study, joyously scribbling, typing or slapping plot-related...
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Monday, 11 July 2016

More Films about Writers

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By Nick Cross I’ve been busy at work recently. Really busy. So I haven’t done much writing or blogging or tweeting or anything like that...
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