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When the work stops rewarding you
Did you start writing a novel, only to find yourself contemplating giving up?
Jan 15
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A quiet note, before the year turns
Between Christmas and New Year there’s a strange pocket of time I’ve always liked.
Dec 26, 2025
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Reader Dispatch - On crime novels that refuse the usual contract
Today’s Reader Dispatch looks at crime fiction that withholds reassurance — and what that kind of structure asks of the reader. I’ve also linked to some…
Dec 17, 2025
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Craft Lab #1 — How Atwood Makes a Sentence Breathe
What it means to begin after the world has already changed
Dec 16, 2025
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The Return to the Summer House
A scene in progress
Dec 12, 2025
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Reader Dispatch - Rereading a Book I Thought I Already Knew
I picked up Atwood’s Bodily Harm this week — a book I first read when I was young enough to think I understood everything.
Dec 10, 2025
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What "Pillion" Shows — And What It Refuses to Show — About Gay Desire
Why I left the cinema feeling seen, but still hungry.
Dec 5, 2025
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Reader Dispatch - When the Past Starts Breathing Again
Reader Dispatch - When the Past Starts Breathing Again
Dec 3, 2025
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AFTER THE STORM
What happens to your creative self after a big push?
Dec 2, 2025
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Writing from the Wound
Before the scar, there’s the story.
Oct 10, 2025
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Packing Light, Living Light
How a last-minute Lisbon trip—and a dose of Patti Smith—helped me rethink control, spontaneity, and the tyranny of “should”
Jun 17, 2025
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TikTok Is Ruining My Brain (So Why the Hell Am I Still Posting?)
I posted this on TikTok.
Jun 14, 2025
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The Books I Had to Burn: Why I Scrapped a Novel to Save My Writing Life
Between you and me, I had to lose the plot to find my way back
Jun 3, 2025
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"Where are you in the story?"
A personal story from the writing of Before I Go to Sleep
May 8, 2025
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The Leap
Sometimes, the hardest step is the one that takes you where you were always meant to be
May 8, 2025
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In Orton's Shadow
Cruel youth, and the lessons I missed the first time round
Apr 23, 2025
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