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Storytelling Secrets #1: The ‘Peach Pie Moment’ (opens the original)
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This is the first of a new series about the craft, machinery and secrets of good writing, in which I crystallize my learnings from over fifteen years as a publisher across Big Five and independent publishing houses. In Storytelling Secrets #1, I explore a running theme in Reacher, which reveals how the smallest thing a character wants can have the largest emotional impact on the reader.A Slice of Peach PieJack Reacher wants a slice of peach pie. He has walked into a diner in a small Georgia town
Purple Passages: The Best Writing on Wine (opens the original)
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Rewatching 'The Office' 25 Years On: Paper in the Paperless Age (opens the original)
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The Office — Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s mockumentary set in a Slough paper company — turns twenty-five years today. It has made me think quite a bit about paper. And it has made me think about what’s next for those of us who work ‘in books’.I was fifteen when it first aired. At around the same time as that pilot episode, I was writing an English essay — probably about some interminable Victorian poetry. Long, even by my verbose standards, for some reason there was a long break in the m
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