
I'm Ed Needham, editor of the fabulous literary magazine Strong Words, and this is my podcast, The Five Rules of Writing. In each episode, I speak to a most excellent writer in a particular genre about how they do it.
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| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 23 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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Freya Berry’s recent debut The Dictator’s Wife features a chilling portrait of a late eastern European tyrant’s partner, as she prepares to go on trial for her life. Here the author describes her five rules for creating such an intimidating and compr... more
Zoë Somerville's recent novel The Marsh House concerns a single mother's Christmas visit to the creepy Norfolk coast, and her reading a life of a previous resident of her dilapidated cottage while nature does its best to frighten her. Here she shares... more
Writer Christina Patterson, whose most recent book is Outside, the Sky is Blue, a crystal-clear account of the havoc visited on her family by illness, on her Five Rules of Writing memoir.
Outside, the Sky is Blue: ... more
Jan Carson, whose most recent novel The Raptures concerns a spate of deaths at a rural Protestant Northern Ireland primary school, on her five rules for writing about the province.
@JanCarson7280
The Raptures: www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/11... more
Richard Balls, author of the superb Shane MacGowan biography, A Furious Devotion, on his five rules for interviewing someone who has little desire to cooperate.
@RichardBalls
A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan: omnibuspress.com/... more
Tom Hodgkinson, whose magazine is devoted to the quest for maximum satisfaction from minimum effort, on where writing fits with this equation.
@idler
The Idler: www.idler.co.uk/
An Idler's Manual: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/... more
First-time author of the sublime Mrs March, Virginia Feito shares her five rules on writing "a gloriously grotesque antiheroine."
Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine.
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Lesley-Ann Jones, Fleet Street survivor and writer of the recent Love of my Life about the relationships of Freddie Mercury, on how to write a rock biography.
Presented by Ed Needham and Strong Words Magazine: strong-words.co.uk/
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