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https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/heroes-and-roger-federer.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Heroes and Roger Federer I'd got this blog post idea in my head all about Wimbledon and heroes and why Roger Federer wasn't one, when what does he do? Gets knocked ... sarah duncan and roger blog heroes federer https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/life-bites-writer-on-bum.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Life Bites Writer On The Bum I was rather pleased with the blog post I wrote yesterday. But no one commented on it. No mentions on Twitter. No one writing to me. I f... sarah duncan blog life on the bites writer https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/murdering-your-darlings.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Murdering Your Darlings It must be one of the most commonly used instructions to writers: Murder your darlings. When I first heard it I though it applied only to ... sarah duncan blog murdering darlings https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/lessons-from-robin-hood-1.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Lessons from Robin Hood 1 I was so looking forward to seeing the new Robin Hood film. Gladiator, with the same star and director, had been one of my favourite fil... sarah duncan robin hood blog lessons https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/rude-poem-that-proves-point.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: A Rude Poem that Proves a Point I recited this poem during my talk at the Get Writing Conference on Saturday: Mary had a little bike, She rode it on the grass. And every ti... sarah duncan blog rude poem proves https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/j-is-for-jargon.html?showComment=1323776280677 Sarah Duncan's Blog: J is for Jargon I'm a writer. I talk about things like POV all the time, I know what an ISBN is, and the difference between verso and recto. They're all b... sarah duncan blog j https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/getting-beat-1.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Getting the Beat 1 The bits that come between the actual speeches in a dialogue section are technically called beats, though I more often refer to them as inbe... sarah duncan the beat blog getting https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/matter-of-focus.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: A Matter of Focus Last Saturday I watched films until my eyes ached and my bum was numb. This was not the result of a decision to watch the complete boxed set... sarah duncan matter of blog focus https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: May 2011 sarah duncan blog may https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-you-need-to-tell-not-show.html?showComment=1342199989438 Sarah Duncan's Blog: When You Need To Tell Not Show It must be the one writing command that everybody knows - Show, don't tell. And it's true that showing, not telling, is usually the right r... sarah duncan you need blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/5-ways-to-beat-writers-block.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: 5 Ways to Beat Writer's Block These techniques are good if you need a bit of a kick start to get going. 1. Write for ten minutes about anything. Use an egg timer to tim... sarah duncan ways to blog beat writer https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/your-writing-is-only-as-good-as-your.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Your Writing Is Only As Good as Your Preparation I was watching one of those house programmes, where the couple were doing up a flat to rent it out as a holiday apartment. They finished, t... sarah duncan your writing blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-do-i-know-when-i-should-stop.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: How Do I Know When I Should Stop Editing? This is probably the question I get asked more than any other. It's certainly the question I flounder most with answering. Some people are... how do i sarah duncan https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/flavouring-speech.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Flavouring Speech Last week I was doing something very silly (pointless, you could say) on television with my mate Caroline. Or was it with my friend Carolin... sarah duncan blog flavouring speech https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/your-little-hobby.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Your Little Hobby What's the best thing about being published? Lots of things - but one has to be that you no longer need to justify your writing. It has pa... sarah duncan blog little hobby https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/if-jobs-worth-doing-its-worth-doing.html?showComment=1341389364356 Sarah Duncan's Blog: If A Job's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Well I'm working on yet another draft of the never ending book. I was telling a writer friend this and they sympathetically asked what the probl... sarah duncan doing it blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/are-there-really-rules-for-writing.html?showComment=1321041418278 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Are There Really Rules For Writing? Yesterday it was announced that Cat's Ahoy by Peter Bently, illustrated by Jim Field, had won this year's Roald Dahl prize for a funny book ... sarah duncan blog really rules writing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-dont-like-flashback.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Why I Don't Like Flashback Classic student opening to a short story or novel: The first paragraph starts...Emma applied another coat of mascara and stared at her refle... sarah duncan don t blog like flashback https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/n-is-for-names.html?showComment=1323992071600 Sarah Duncan's Blog: N is for Names Imagine a character called Doris. How old is she? What's her background? What clothes is she wearing? What are her shoes like? Where do... n is for sarah duncan blog names https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/addressing-agent.html?showComment=1341249761262 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Addressing An Agent On Twitter one evening one of the agents I follow was going through their slush pile and tweeting about the various manuscripts, and why ... sarah duncan blog addressing agent https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/x-factor-writing.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: X Factor Writing So Lucie has been voted off the X Factor, despite being the best female vocalist, while Jedward, unable to sing in tune 50% of the time, sta... sarah duncan blog x factor writing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/silly-suggestions.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Silly Suggestions I was giving a talk a couple of weeks ago and one of the questions that came up was about feedback: should you re-write according to an agen... sarah duncan blog silly suggestions https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/perhaps-i-should-ditch-qualifiers.html?showComment=1288682697868 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Perhaps I should Ditch the Qualifiers I feel that you should all do this. Perhaps you might, in certain circumstances, maybe agree with me. On the other hand, I think that some... sarah duncan blog perhaps ditch qualifiers https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/giving-up-day-job.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Giving up the Day Job We're British, so asking people how much they earn simply isn't cricket. Unless you're a writer, in which case the social niceties go out t... sarah duncan giving up the day blog job https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/be-quick.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Be Quick! When the weather's like this, the big decision of the day is when to walk the dog without getting drenched. I peer out of the window trying... sarah duncan blog quick https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/book-doctors-and-reading-services-worth.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Book Doctors and Reading Services - Worth the Money? The short answer is Yes. No. It depends. What a book doctor or reading service can do is give you completely impartial feedback. They're... sarah duncan blog book https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/prizes-and-sales.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Prizes and Sales A recent article in the Bookseller reported on the sales push winning prizes gave books. Some of the quantities are surprising - for exampl... sarah duncan blog prizes sales https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/never-be-snotty-to-assistant.html?showComment=1298413611072 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Never be Snotty to the Assistant At the RNA party to announce the shortlist for the Novel of the Year 2011 (which Kissing Mr Wrong just happens to be on) I was chatting to ... sarah duncan to the blog never snotty https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/really-really-wanting-it.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Really, Really Wanting It I find it worrying how many times you hear on reality talent programmes how the contestants really want it, it being whatever the prize is. ... sarah duncan blog really wanting https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/marking-woes.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Marking Woes End of term - hooray! No more teaching - I'm free! And then the unmistakeable thud of assignments plopping through the letter box and the il... sarah duncan blog marking woes https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/tell-no-one.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Tell No One... If I'm teaching a How to Get Published or How to Write a Novel course I always start by discovering what genre people are writing in, so I... sarah duncan blog tell one https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/punctuation-as-natural-as-breathing.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Punctuation - as Natural as Breathing? Punctuation. If you went to school before 1970 you're probably fine with it, but somewhere it got lost in education and it matters. Why? a) ... sarah duncan blog punctuation natural breathing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/problems-in-synopses.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Problems in Synopses Each of the following extracts were taken from three real synopses, but I've doctored them a bit to protect the guilty (of whom I was one...... sarah duncan blog problems synopses https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: August 2012 sarah duncan blog august https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/story-threading-for-depth.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Story Threading For Depth One of the real joys about writing is when you write a section and realise that, without knowing it, you've set up the situation beforehan... sarah duncan blog story threading depth https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/me-good-at-titles-think-again.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Me - Good at Titles? Think Again. I've been doing a lot of talks recently, and if the subject of titles has come up, people have kindly said that I have great titles and am o... sarah duncan me good blog titles think https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/using-index-cards-ii.html?showComment=1330600220371 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Using Index Cards II So I've got the first draft of my novel written and I've written an index card for each scene. What next? I lay the cards out on my bed (or... sarah duncan index cards blog using ii https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: November 2011 sarah duncan blog november https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/writing-in-first-person.html?showComment=1341865550213 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Writing in First Person When you begin writing, using first person often seems natural. I struggled for a little while to get used to writing in the third person, ... sarah duncan blog writing first person https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/la-and-other-character-names-to-avoid.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: La-a and Other Character Names to Avoid There's a story doing the rounds about a child called La-a. This is apparently pronounced Ladasha. It's like the scene in LA Story when S... sarah duncan https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/twelve-exercises-of-christmas-6.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: The Twelve Exercises of Christmas: 6 Write the story of your name. Why are you called what you're called? Do you have a nick name? Have you been called by another name at ano... sarah duncan the twelve blog exercises christmas https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/variety-is-spice-of-dialogue.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Variety is the Spice of Dialogue Recently I was looking at some student work and while the dialogue seemed realistic, it also appeared clunky. Then I realised: it was the ... sarah duncan blog variety spice dialogue https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/dont-give-up-keep-on-going.html?showComment=1320738805286 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Don't Give Up, Keep On Going A few years back I went to a reunion of my writing group. We'd all done the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa together, and eight of us ha... sarah duncan don t give up blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/4-ways-to-perfect-title.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: 4 Ways to The Perfect Title 1. Look at other titles in the same area. With Adultery for Beginners , I had in mind Carol Clewlow's book A Woman's Guide to Adulte... sarah duncan ways to the perfect blog title https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/before-and-after.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Before and After Before I was published I went to writing groups and talks about writing. I found writing friends and set up workshopping groups. I dev... sarah duncan blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/other-side-of-story.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: The Other Side of the Story The flip side of the frustrating student is working with a receptive one. It is soooo satisfying working with another writer on their manus... the other side sarah duncan blog story https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/feedback-love-it-or-hate-it.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Feedback: Love It Or Hate It? A while back I read Matthew Syed's book Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success. There was lots in it I found fascinating, bu... sarah duncan love it blog feedback hate https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: April 2012 sarah duncan blog april https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/tell-no-one.html?showComment=1320788986470 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Tell No One... If I'm teaching a How to Get Published or How to Write a Novel course I always start by discovering what genre people are writing in, so I... sarah duncan blog tell one https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-writing-needs-to-be-real.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Why Writing Needs to be Real It was the first time workshopping the new students on my courses yesterday. They're all new-ish to writing, and I think weren't quite sure... sarah duncan to be blog writing needs https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-dear-dog-tan.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: My Dear Dog Tan My dear old dog has been ill since Easter with a stomach tumour. He was prescribed steroids and rallied, although he was getting noticeably... sarah duncan my dear blog dog tan https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/even-derren-brown-is-at-it.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Even Derren Brown Is At It Following on from Open and Closed Stories, yesterday evening I got round to watching last week's Derren Brown programme. For those who don... sarah duncan blog even derren brown https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/s-is-for-self-promotion.html?showComment=1324596530835 Sarah Duncan's Blog: S is for Self Promotion At a writers lunch this week, one of us asked if you HAD to be on Twitter, Facebook etc. The others there, including me, had all been told ... sarah duncan for self blog promotion https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-i-got-into-teaching-creative.html?showComment=1275648666936 Sarah Duncan's Blog: How I Got Into Teaching Creative Writing Jessica asked me this and I thought - whee! there's something I haven't blogged about before, which is brilliant when you're a daily blogger... sarah duncan how i blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-feedback-goes-wrong.html?showComment=1312364573614 Sarah Duncan's Blog: When Feedback Goes Wrong A friend asked me to have a look at their novel a while back so I did. I like book doctoring, but don't like the fall out - people really w... sarah duncan blog feedback goes wrong https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-egg-timer-for-writing.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Using An Egg Timer For Writing When my children were small, every writing minute counted and I was quite ruthless about getting on with it when I had the opportunity. Now... sarah duncan egg timer blog using writing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/starter-finisher.html?showComment=1313472334316 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Starter Finisher If you watched The Apprentice, at the interview stage a former employer apparently described Inventor Tom as not being a Starter Finisher. ... sarah duncan blog starter finisher https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/3-ways-to-make-depressed-character.html?showComment=1321702872056 Sarah Duncan's Blog: 3 Ways to Make a Depressed Character Interesting A common story arc is to start a novel with a main character who is down in the dumps and to show their recovery from whatever it was that w... sarah duncan ways to https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/reactions-that-work-for-you.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Reactions that Work for You A student recently presented a piece for workshopping. It had already been workshopped before, and here it was in its shiny new revised sta... sarah duncan work for blog reactions https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: July 2011 sarah duncan blog july https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-characters-actually-say.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: What Characters Actually Say Another editing tip, one I've found very useful with characters. I first discovered this with Adam in Adultery for Beginners . I couldn't ... sarah duncan blog characters actually say https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/publication-day.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Publication Day It's here. For the last few weeks I've been living an extended version of a Stephen King film. I'm walking through an empty house, knowing t... sarah duncan blog publication day https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/flashback.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Flashback You're writing a scene, and suddenly you go back in time to another scene: that's flashback. It is a useful tool for some writers, but it's... sarah duncan blog flashback https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-was-juliet-of-putney.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: I was the Juliet of Putney I wrote a week or so ago about Jilly Cooper and me, and how even as an utterly self-absorbed teenager I recognised how hard she worked. It ... sarah duncan blog i juliet putney https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/c-is-for-craft.html?showComment=1322695771731 Sarah Duncan's Blog: C is for Craft Mozart was a genius. His talent flowed without apparent effort. But Mozart had to learn his craft before he started composing. Same with w... sarah duncan blog craft https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: February 2011 sarah duncan blog february https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/u-is-for-unicorns.html?showComment=1325522554594 Sarah Duncan's Blog: U is for Unicorns Am I the only person who hasn't read the Steig Larsson trilogy? I haven't because I've heard they're extremely violent, and I don't like re... sarah duncan blog unicorns https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/writers-cheatsheet.html?showComment=1321645978906 Sarah Duncan's Blog: The Writers Cheatsheet Peter Halanz developed his Writers Cheatsheet when he was doing NaNoWriMo last year. He put everything he felt he needed to know onto one ... sarah duncan the writers blog cheatsheet https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: June 2011 sarah duncan blog june https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-talent-enough.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Is Talent Enough? I didn't watch Britain's Got Talent until a friend emailed me with a YouTube link saying, you've got to watch this. So I obediently did an... sarah duncan blog talent enough https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-i-write-romantic-fiction.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Why I Write Romantic Fiction It's Valentine's Day, so romance is in the air and I am, of course, a romantic novelist. Except I'm not - at least, not in my head. As far... why i write sarah duncan blog romantic fiction https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/eat-pray-and-be-positive.html?showComment=1278952673603 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Eat Pray and Be Positive I was looking for an example of writing for my talk at the RNA Conference and came up with this bit from Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert... sarah duncan blog eat pray positive https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-write-sex-scenes.html?showComment=1291917294135 Sarah Duncan's Blog: Why Write Sex Scenes? The good news is, for those who don't like the idea of writing about sex, it's not compulsory. Lots of stories exist where sex never gets a... sarah duncan why write blog sex scenes https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/4th-place-for-writers.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: 4th Place For Writers Is the worse position in an Olympic final 4th place? So near to a place in the history books and the admiration on non-sportspeople and yet... sarah duncan blog place writers https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: April 2010 sarah duncan blog april https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/specific-is-always-better.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Specific Is Always Better Before you read on, I want you to write down two lists: First, what would you do if you suddenly had lots and lots of money - a EuroMillions... sarah duncan blog specific always better https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-you-need-to-tell-not-show.html?showComment=1342173483542 Sarah Duncan's Blog: When You Need To Tell Not Show It must be the one writing command that everybody knows - Show, don't tell. And it's true that showing, not telling, is usually the right r... sarah duncan you need blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/idea-or-story.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Idea or Story When I was on my MA there was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow attached to the department who could be consulted about writing matters.* Our RL... sarah duncan blog idea story https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-write-or-write-another.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Re-Write? Or Write Another? So your manuscript has gone out, and come back more than several times. You've had feedback from friends, fellow writers, possibly some com... sarah duncan blog write another https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/does-conventional-publishing-deserve-to_31.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Does Conventional Publishing Deserve to Survive? II Editing and Gate Keeping yesterday. Today I'm looking at Marketing and Career Sustainability 3. Marketing All authors are told to use socia... sarah duncan blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/questions-as-pitch.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Questions As A Pitch Moving on from making the plot into questions, I also thought it clarifies the mind as to the over all theme or character arc by transformin... sarah duncan blog questions pitch https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/ideas-r-us.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Ideas R Us It's one of the standard questions writers get asked: Where do you get your ideas from? The short answer is something like, Ideas-R-Us, whe... sarah duncan blog ideas us https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/beats-what-they-are-how-they-work.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Beats: What They Are, How They Work The bits that come between the actual speeches in a dialogue section are technically called beats, though I more often refer to them as in... what they are sarah duncan blog beats work https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/playing-around-with-what-if.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Playing Around with What If I've come to a tricky moment in my current novel. I've written a lot of it, then realised that I needed to start earlier, so I'm writing th... sarah duncan playing around blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/writing-for-international-market.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Writing for the International Market I came across this link to the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010 , according to the New York Times, and was struck by how different ... sarah duncan blog writing for the international market https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-find-agent.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: How To Find An Agent (and the answer isn't under a stone...) The initial moves which see an author being signed up by an agent are usually - though not always - ... how to find sarah duncan blog agent https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-to-call-agent.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: What To Call An Agent It sounds really simple. You put together your first three chapters, your synopsis, your covering letter ready to send round to some agents... sarah duncan blog call agent https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/personal-habits-and-writing.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Personal Habits and Writing I used to smoke when I was in my teens, but gave up in my mid-20s and haven't puffed since. So I don't think about characters smoking. I'v... sarah duncan blog personal habits writing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/on-chapter-endings.html?showComment=1313079985286 Sarah Duncan's Blog: On Chapter Endings Learning to manipulate your chapter endings is vital if you want to write a page turner. Most people read in bed and aim to read a chapter ... sarah duncan blog on chapter endings https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/ Sarah Duncan's Blog: March 2010 sarah duncan blog march https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/knowing-your-writing-preferences.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Knowing Your Writing Preferences We all have writing preferences, the stuff we find easiest to write. Through lots of writing you learn which your preferences are and what ... sarah duncan your writing blog knowing preferences https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/plotting-with-index-cards.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Plotting with Index Cards A couple of queries have come up about exactly HOW I use index cards. I don't do anything complicated like plan out scenes using Excel, I s... sarah duncan blog plotting index cards https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-really-happens-with-slush-pile.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: What Really Happens with the Slush Pile The other day I was chatting to a young man about publishing. He revealed he'd spent the summer going through the slush pile of a local pub... sarah duncan blog https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/posh-dinner-re-writing-fish.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Posh Dinner Re-writing: Fish Now we're moving onto something with a bit more protein. I've decided roughly on the scene order and if there need to be any new scenes, or... sarah duncan blog posh dinner writing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/pc-or-not-pc.html?showComment=1260698652738 Sarah Duncan's Blog: PC or not PC I was reading the blurbs from my local cinema and came across this for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus : Cert 12A: Contains infrequent s... sarah duncan blog pc https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/hows-your-hearing.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: How's Your Hearing? One of my favourite sayings is Positive People Planning with Purpose. It sums up the qualities I think main characters need to have and I f... sarah duncan blog hearing https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/importance-of-normal-world.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: The Importance Of Normal World I was speaking at a Writers Day at the weekend. As part of the day we asked participants to bring in their first pages, which they got feedb... sarah duncan blog importance normal world https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/confused-of-bath.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Confused of Bath I am bursting with pride because my baby boy has been awarded a First from King's, London. It is terrific news and I'm thrilled to bits. H... sarah duncan blog confused bath https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-is-for-italics.html?showComment=1323540423864 Sarah Duncan's Blog: I is for Italics There are several reasons why you might use italics.... 1. To indicate a foreign word or phrase: 'I'm fed up with the lot of you. Basta !... sarah duncan blog i italics https://sarahduncansblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/five-paragraphs-expanded.html Sarah Duncan's Blog: Five Paragraphs Expanded A few people asked me to expand on my format for a covering letter to an agent, so here it is, all to be fitted on one page. 1. Why you're w... sarah duncan blog five paragraphs expanded