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What I don’t know about writing could fill a blog – and does.

It’s true: timm in type houses a host of posts on a trio of literary tropes.

Writing as a Craft
Pick-up Lines: How Not to Start a Novel
Majority Report: Coming of Age Online
Blogging Bad: Seven Reasons Why Lists Suck
Feathers and Fur (Part 1): Doctored Strangelove or Sexual Stuntfest?
Feathers and Fur (Part 2): The Climactic Conclusion
Hanging on Every Word: Why Minor Moments Matter
A Tale With Teeth (Part 1): Putting the Bite Back into Fairy Stories

Writing as a Vocation
‘One Does What One Is’: On Being a Writer
Somewhere to Land: Why We Write What We Write
Novelists Write Novels: The Pencil Drops

Writing as a Career

Man of Many Parts: Shakespeare, Modern-day Novelist
On Being a Back-to-Front Writer: Story-telling and Self-promotion
Tattoos and Ice Cream: Mr Nobody’s Guide to Nothing

You’d be forgiven for thinking I can write!

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‘Yes, yes,’ said the therapist, briskly. ‘It’s an open-and-shut case. You’ve lost your identity and the new you doesn’t need teeth.’

She cast an eye over the wolf’s lithe figure.

‘Just out of curiosity, what do you eat?’

‘Shakes, mostly,’ said the wolf. ‘It’s a complete diet, only minus the children.’

‘Might be worth a try,’ murmured the therapist. ‘My sister’s getting married next month, you know, and I’d like to be looking my best.’

‘You go grrrl,’ said the wolf, giving her knee a squeeze.

From A Tale With Teeth (Part 1): Putting the Bite Back into Fairy Stories (November 9, 2014)

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