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Write For Real: Review: In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Friday, 17 June 2016. Review: In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll. Magical. Evocative. Classic. Alice doesn’t believe in fairies. With her little brother very sick, her life is all too real. But everything changes when she has to move in with her eccentric aunt, on the very edge of the mysterious Darkling Wood. Amongst those whispering trees, anything can happen…. And Five Children and It. Out at the end of June. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Write For Real: 12/13/15
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Sunday, 13 December 2015. Dogs and their Writers: Molly and Stephen King; Chester and Nick Mackie; Mickey and Jo Franklin. Stephen King has one. So does Neil Gaiman, and so did Kurt Vonnegurt and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Steinbeck. I know I couldn’t do without mine. He’s there now, jumping onto the bed as I write. As he realises it’s one of Mummy’s writing days, and snuggles under the duvet with a contented little huff. Basil, aka Dog. Is your dog...
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Write For Real: How I Used Method Writing for The Island
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Wednesday, 17 February 2016. How I Used Method Writing for The Island. Method acting: a technique of acting in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part. Method writing: a technique of writing in which a writer attempts to do the same. That’s all I’m saying. I was preparing for a long stint writing my first draft of The Island. So I’d re-watched Tom Hanks in the excellent film, Castaway. On the Discovery Channel; read Adrift.
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Write For Real: 06/17/16
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Friday, 17 June 2016. Review: In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll. Magical. Evocative. Classic. Alice doesn’t believe in fairies. With her little brother very sick, her life is all too real. But everything changes when she has to move in with her eccentric aunt, on the very edge of the mysterious Darkling Wood. Amongst those whispering trees, anything can happen…. And Five Children and It. Out at the end of June. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Out 3rd March 2016.
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Write For Real: 01/02/16
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Saturday, 2 January 2016. Dogs and their Writers - Part 2. Welcome to Part 2 of my Dogs and their Writers post, featuring Diesel and his debut author Kathryn Evans, Mitzi and her writer, Amanda George, and Stanley Chester’s author Camilla Chester. First, a picture of Basil, who inspired Dog in my debut book The Island. If you look closely, he has even found his way onto the spine of my book! Now to this week's dogs and their writers:. In so many ways! I thin...
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Write For Real: Why Writers Make Excellent Survivors
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Monday, 29 February 2016. Why Writers Make Excellent Survivors. So this year at my school, I'm organising World Book Day. I've run World Book Day before, but this one is special. Because it also happens to be the launch date of my debut novel.This means assemblies on growth mindset to plan, and costumes to decide (will Jack Merridew from Lord of the Flies be OK, and should it be pre or post pig blood? My YA book is a castaway story called The Island. Involve...
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Write For Real: Easter Reading - a Clutch of Good Eggs
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Sunday, 10 April 2016. Easter Reading - a Clutch of Good Eggs. Spring has sprung, and I've been catching up with my reading pile. So here are three Easter stunners:. Darkmere, by Helen Maslin. I met Helen at the UKYA Bookbinge Festival at Birmingham Waterstones, and the moment she said that her influences included Daphne du Maurier, I knew that I had to read this one.( Rebecca. And I couldn't put this one down! I gallantly plunged on, and finished the book i...
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Write For Real: 07/26/15
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Sunday, 26 July 2015. A Pair of Chillers. Pub’d by HotKey Books. This was the first book I bought at YALC. Because I’d seen the cover through twitter, and I’m a sucker for swirly ink-blots. Straight away the narrative voice gripped me, in a slightly disturbing way. There was something out of kilter, something left unsaid – a sense of corner-of-your-eye creepiness, that reminded me of Ishiguro’s harrowing tale, Never Let Me Go. So, now to the story. Once you ...
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Write For Real: 12 Character Costume Ideas - and Not a Harry Potter in Sight!
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Saturday, 5 November 2016. 12 Character Costume Ideas - and Not a Harry Potter in Sight! Author of The Island. It's almost that time of year again. That time when SCBWI members will be scratching their heads about What to Wear at the annual mass book launch party. Well, fear not. Here's a fail-safe list of 12 book character costume ideas that will delight, amaze and stun your writerly friends:. 1 The Wardrobe (CS Lewis). 2 Mockingjay pin (Suzanne Collins).
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Write For Real: 04/10/16
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Author interviews. Writing tips. Book reviews. Sunday, 10 April 2016. Easter Reading - a Clutch of Good Eggs. Spring has sprung, and I've been catching up with my reading pile. So here are three Easter stunners:. Darkmere, by Helen Maslin. I met Helen at the UKYA Bookbinge Festival at Birmingham Waterstones, and the moment she said that her influences included Daphne du Maurier, I knew that I had to read this one.( Rebecca. And I couldn't put this one down! I gallantly plunged on, and finished the book i...
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