HeyJaredWrite As You Are
Reflections on writing and the writing life from a British writer in Mexico.
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15 Things I Have Been Thinking About Lately (opens the original)
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Things I Know About Writing (opens the original)
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This week my mind is full with logistics, deadlines and editing work, so I thought I would reach into the magic bag of ‘old’ Substack posts and share one with you all. In the spirit of not always having to be churning out the new, and in my love of a reload when out dancing to Drum n Bass back in the analogue days, I’m doing a Substack reload and sharing a piece that sums up so much about writing as I see it. And I just looked to see when I first published this piece. September 4, 2024! So that
Is Autofiction the Literary Selfie? (opens the original)
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Tired of reading? Let me read it to you. Just click on the voiceover above.Lately, I have found myself reading a lot of autofiction. It hasn’t been intentional, many times I wasn’t even aware the books were autofiction , since they were sold in the fiction section of the bookshop. Many of the books captivated me, some left me cold, most left me waiting for something to happen, mostly nothing much ‘happens,’ in many of these books.I read one such book last year that had been raved about, a writer
Want to Be A Novelist? Don't Become a Journalist (opens the original)
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One of the most common things I see in the mentoring space is writers who want to be novelists starting out by telling me they want to write non-fiction. I have a question on the sign up for a Discovery Call that asks what the person would like help with. So, let’s imagine that a person, let’s call them Jane, signed up. Here’s what Jane tells me in the sign up form. I’m writing some personal essays and some articles and would like to work on getting them publishedOne of my first questions when s
Going "in scene" in memoir (opens the original)
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I work with a lot of memoirists in my capacity as a writing mentor. (So much so that I wonder if I am getting a little nudge from the universe to write memoir, but that’s a story for another day). One of the most common lines of editorial feedback I give is, “can you go ‘in scene’ here?”Let me explain what I mean, because I think it might be helpful to both non-fiction and fiction writers.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1627353802168-e8e8a81e5
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