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'Writing still comes from writing, not from intending to write'.

The concluding words of Edith Ronald Mirrielees in her 1930s book 'Story Writing'.

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Story Writing - E R Mirrielees

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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Monday, 17 Sep 2012, 06:07

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Why read this book?

  • To improve all your writing.
  • To subdue some refractory story

Tip 1 - get the story told in first draft.

'You know not, but you know not what you know not'.

Tip 2 - what is the story about? What hols it together?

Tip 3 - Better to be wrong than be spineless. 'Flitter-mindedness - a new idea every week and interest in the old one dead and gone - is one of the handicaps that keep a would-be writer would-be and no more to the end of their writing days'.

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