February 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Battling on



I have, as some of you might know, been involved in the campaign to protect UK libraries at a time of budget cuts, which has reinforced for many writers the passion their readers feel for books and those who supply them. Well, according to the…

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Added by John Dean on February 16, 2011 at 14:51 — No Comments

Endings

I am a big football fan, and just as big a rugby fan, and it has always been clear that the teams that can finish are the ones that succeed. Without producing too twee a link, it is the same with writers and writing. Why do I say this? Well, twice in recent weeks, I have read stories which promised much and did not quite deliver.

One was a novel which had a terrific idea but which announced an even better one in the final pages - then stopped without developing it. The second was a…

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Added by John Dean on February 13, 2011 at 16:55 — No Comments

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