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Lance
There is one scene in Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair in which the narrator, a writer called Bendrix, eaten up by jealousy of his former lover, meets a private detective he has hired to find out about her latest affair. The detective, Parkis, is a hard-working and honest man who takes his young…
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One true sentence
I don’t know why, but today Hemingway popped into my head. I remembered his advice that a good way to start a story was to write one true sentence. Perhaps I was subconsciously looking for something solid and stable, something to hold on to. At first, it seemed a promising approach. But then all I…
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Unfinished Business
Going through my notebook entries from the last few months. A heap of information, inspiration and introspection. Lots of story ideas. One is about a middle-aged divorced man who goes into the bathroom one morning and finds a sardine in his soap net. Another very random one: create a story that contains all the words…
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Women’s Hour
Sitting through a Q&A with a literary agent. At some point I notice that the vast majority of the aspiring authors are female. Seventy, to be precise. Only six men. I ask the agent about the gender ratio of the authors represented by her agency. She doesn’t know. The future of books, it seems, is…
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