I’m a big fan of Meg Rosoff. Her latest book, There is No Dog, is a quirky and irreverent look at our potential deity – though you may end up despairing of him, it all makes quite a lot of sense. And the wonderful How I Live Now is, as I type, being made into [...]
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How to be a writer – a homage to Meg Rosoff
Posted in books, farming, festivals, Lifestyle, Parenting, Writing, tagged farming, meg rosoff, parenting, writing on February 23, 2012 | 32 Comments »
Word Counts
Posted in books, Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged alice sebold, candy gourlay, children's fiction, francesca simon, harry potter, horrid henry, jk rowling, kathryn stockett, louis sachar, maurice sendak, meg rosoff, michael morpurgo, philip ardagh, sarwat chadda, word counts, writersservice, writing on June 10, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Getting a feel for the right length of your novel is a puzzling thing. I know it shouldn’t matter – a story takes as long to be told as a story takes to be told BUT I do tend to obsess about it. I think I like guidelines – like to know I’m on the [...]
