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A chat with Page One

I sat down for a natter with the nice people at Page One about my long and occasionally odd writing career. You can listen for free here https://www.writegear.co.uk/podcast/e218-david-hewson

A chat with Page One
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We don’t need another hero

I'm wary of heroes, modern ones anyway. The classical type are fine. They’re flawed, miserable, doomed creatures, nothing like the too-perfect marionettes you meet on occasion today. If you’re thinking about writing about one of the latter – you know the kind, great teeth, perfect hair, indefatigable,

We don’t need another hero
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Revising a manuscript – three strikes and you’re out

You’ve been wanting to finish that book for ages. Finally, you’ve just typed the last page. Yippee! Now what? Do you reveal your MS to the world, or at least an agent or editor you’d like to woo? No. By which I mean NO! The key to

Revising a manuscript – three strikes and you’re out
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The shaky start to my semi-illustrious career

Thirty years ago I was sitting in business class on a JAL flight from London to Tokyo, a glass of champagne in hand, a fat stack of three hundred or so A4 printout pages on the table in front of me. They amounted to the latest and, I’d decided,

The shaky start to my semi-illustrious career
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Pick a name, any name

How do you decide what your characters in your story are called? Carefully, I hope. If your book works, that choice will live with you for years. My stories usually take place in foreign countries and often with local characters. My first published book, finished thirty years ago this year,

Pick a name, any name