HeyJaredDay Dreaming
I’ve been writing novels for decades. I’ve published 10, in the UK and internationally. I know how long books take, how they go wrong, and what persistence they require. My Substack is where I show you my writing life and share some tricks I've learned
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In which I finish writing my new book and run away to Spain for a literary retreat (opens the original)
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I finished my book, writing through long hot summer days to land the fish, fillet it and send off to my patient and brilliant agent. Not wanting to bang on, but I feel any writers should know this: A week or so before I finished, I was thinking about my awful typos and the way I sprinkle the whole thing with either double or single speech marks, willy nilly and general appalling use of punctuation . So I sent it to Claude asking ‘can you fix typos and speech marks, and punctuation where it needs
San Rafael Retreat - 17th to 20th September ’26 (opens the original)
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What have the heatwaves done to our brains? (opens the original)
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Well, maybe not exactly that as it brings bad ju ju, but something low and with a paddling pool vibe. This is a Pinterest hen modelling. I put Rita and Ottaline in the washing up bowl yesterday. Didn’t take a picture. It was as if they were having a pedicure really. They were pleased about it. Read more
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