writing
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Finding support for your writing can be hard. Here are a few quick tips to help you get an agent.
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Like many of you, I despair at the AI-generated ‘list posts’ that pop up everywhere now. Five tips to be a writer. Five things to clear the storage on your iPhone. Five reasons The Odyssey is the worst film of all time.
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My passion is for telling the story of ‘ordinary’ people doing extraordinary things. I hope that comes across in my interview with broadcaster Paul Ross.
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I got scammed. But not in the way you may think. Be careful out there.
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Writing a book can be a long and lonely journey. My latest began many years ago while sitting in my friend John’s house. I’d always been fascinated by the Resistance and evasion line heroes who had helped him and many others. I trace my interest back to the great BBC series ‘Secret Army’, and many…
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In 1973, the horrific murders of three teenage girls shook a community. A major manhunt was launched but for years the murders remained unsolved. Decades later, it would take a major breakthrough in forensic science to enable a small team of seasoned detectives to re-open the case. But the journey to justice was a winding…
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Artillery Wood Two military graves lying only feet apart in a Belgian cemetery commemorate the lives of two iconic literary figures: the greatest Welsh and the greatest Irish poets of the Great War. They died on the same day (102 years ago today) in the same battle, but the paths that led them into British…
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Writing Tom Sharkey’s biography meant we got to “meet” many of the great characters of old-time boxing. Sharkey wasn’t the only wild character among them. One of our favourites was “Kid” McCoy – real name Norman Selby – who faced Sharkey in January 1899 as a boyish-looking 26-year-old and had fast become one of…
Greg Lewis 