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The Art of Not Giving In (Part Two)

The Second Coming of the North Surrey Gigantopithecus PREVIOUSLY, in The Art of Not Giving In, I described how I went from abandoning my novel, The North Surrey Gigantopithecus

December 1, 2021
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The Art of Not Giving In (Part One)

Part 1: The Entombment of the North Surrey Gigantopithecus Death, Rebirth, Resurrection: In January 2018, all the cool kids sat in stunned silence and wept into their berets when,

November 1, 2021
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Rejection: The elephant in the writing room

It can take us weeks, months or years to birth a new piece of writing; work that means the world to us and which we hope one day might

October 1, 2021
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Moving with the Times: the evolution of a literature festival

The birth of StoryTown, a literature festival whose home is the Wiltshire town of Corsham, was in 2018. For a good while, the town council had wanted to host

September 1, 2021
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How to Write Your First Page

Mslexia magazine has teamed up with top Readers from The Literary Consultancy and Gold Dust to bring you the definitive guide to writing a first page that will hook

August 4, 2021
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Fiction vs Non-Fiction Pitches… What’s the Difference?

One of the things we most regularly get asked at TLC is, ‘What is the difference between a fiction pitch and a non-fiction pitch, when I’m sending my work

July 2, 2021
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Twenty Years a TLC Reader

It was the summer of 2001. I’d recently finished working as a writer at Emmerdale. For several years I’d been teaching creative writing in Adult Ed, and had picked

June 1, 2021
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Turning Down a Publishing Contract to Become an Indie Entrepreneur

How I Learned What Made Me Tick as a Writer I once started Haruki Murakami’s autobiography. His career as a writer started with a literary competition in Tokyo. He

May 1, 2021
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TLC Online Writers’ Day Write-Up 2021

This month, we’re pleased to feature a write-up of our recent Online Writers’ Day, from friend of TLC Ciara Holly. We were grateful to Ciara for stepping in as

April 1, 2021
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Where Words Come From

This month’s TLC Blog is from writer, Free Read receipient, and soon-to-be published author Jon Ransom. An early draft of his forthcoming novel ‘The Whale Tattoo’ (Muswell Press, Spring

March 1, 2021
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What Winning TLC Pen Factor Meant to Me

So, this is all mine? I thought, scanning my list of prizes. I had just won TLC’s Pen Factor Competition 2019. In addition to winning a full manuscript assessment

February 1, 2021
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My Mentoring Journey with TLC

A wonderful blog to kick off 2021, from TLC Mentee, and NHS worker Rose McGinty. Rose wrote this blog at the end of last year, after her experience working

January 4, 2021