
Writing wisdom, advice and encouragement for every day of the year. Join me (and help me) as I draft a writing manual 'On Drafting'. awritersdiary.substack.com
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What are my principles as a teacher of writing?
I tried to get them down on a single page, and succeeded.
There are five different principles, and here they are.
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Here I'm sharing a draft opening to my writing manual. It talks about different writers different ways of drafting. Perhaps one of them is similar to yours - but I'd be surprised if you drafted like Proust, Flaubert or Kerouac.
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Here's a bill of fare, a draft contents section, and a sneak preview of what's coming up in the next few weeks and months.
How does this compare to what you know about a book when you begin drafting it?
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Today's podcast is about who you are on the page. Is it the writer described in your blurb, or is it a person you've decided to be, for the purposes of what you're writing?
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What do we think about before we start writing? What context are we writing in? For me, Climate (to call it that) is front and centre. Here's what I've got to say about acknowledging that's the ground I'm on.
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Hello, Happy New Year and welcome to Writer’s Diary 2026.
This is slightly different.
As you can tell, I’m going to be speaking, as well as writing, and the subject this year is going to be writing a book, which I’m going to be starting doing.
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