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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

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Necessary complications and genre

As a writer with an attention span smaller than a fruit fly’s (despite the recent invidious comparisons with Donald Trump) I need strong stuff to keep me going –

December 1, 2020

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Writing ‘Wanderers’

Writing my non-fiction book did not come easily. What started it all was reading Robert Macfarlane’s book The Old Ways. I read it in mid-2014, and wrote about it

November 1, 2020
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Putting It Out There

This month’s TLC Blog comes from poet David Herring, who used TLC as part of an experiment in Patreon poetry earlier this year. “We recommend a first read-through, then

October 1, 2020
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Being an Indie Author does not mean you should go it alone

In 2018 I achieved my lifelong dream. After several (i.e. many) casual efforts I had sat down, taken it seriously, and written a novel. My science-fantasy epic Vile had

September 1, 2020

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Home Is An Act of Creativity

Wherever I have felt truly at home, I have felt the presence of the house of my childhood – my grandparents’ home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, shimmering through the

August 1, 2020
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My Mentor and Me

Here, TLC Mentee and Creative Future Writing Award winner Pauline Walker conducts an interview with her TLC Mentor, Tom Bromley. And, to mix things up, we thought it would

July 1, 2020
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Breakfast at Bronzefield: A Book from Inside Britain’s Largest Women’s Prison

This month, former TLC Free Read recipient Sophie Campbell shares the story of her journey to self-publication for her powerful memoir, ‘Breakfast at Bronzefield’, which depicts her experiences inside

June 1, 2020
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The Need for Narrative

The need for a narrative is hard-wired into we humans, the emotional significance encoded in the acts of telling and reading stories imprinted on our conscious and unconscious minds.

May 4, 2020
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A Survival Guide to Remote Working

Freelance writer and remote work veteran Maxine Roper shares her tips for remote working and adjusting to difficult times… Accept you’re getting used to something different Many of us

April 7, 2020

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My First Year at TLC

It’s been a whole year since I started working at The Literary Consultancy and I’m in awe at just how quickly it’s gone. Time really does fly when you’re

March 1, 2020