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Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Lost in Translation

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1)
1870 (1)
A Life in a Day; Ridley Scott (1)
A Partridge in a Pear Tree (4)
A Sense of Proportion (1)
A Trip to Bountiful (1)
AAtmosphere; Suspense; Mystery (1)
Adding Value to your Manuscript (1)
Advice for Fiction Writers (1)
Affirmation (1)
Ahren Warner (1)
Alan Yentob (1)
Alastair Horne (1)
Alex Johnson (1)
Algonquin Hotel (1)
Alice in Wonderland (1)
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Alistair Horne (1)
Alliteration (2)
Almeida Theatre (2)
Ambiguity (5)
Ambivalence (1)
Amnesty International Bookshop (1)
Andrew Scott (1)
Anna Chancellor (1)
Anna Karenina (2)
Anne Tyler (1)
Anton Chekhov (1)
Appropriateness (1)
Archaisms (1)
Art Nouveau (1)
Arthur Whitby (1)
Articulating Thought (1)
AS Byatt (1)
Assembling the Elements of a Narrative (1)
Atmosphere (2)
attention to detail (1)
Audrey Niffenegger. The Time Traveler's Wife (1)
Authenticity (2)
Author (1)
Authorial resilience; stamina (1)
Authority (2)
Autobiographical Writing (1)
Autobiography; Characterisation (2)
Avoiding Adjectives (1)
Back Story (1)
Backstory (1)
Ballindalloch Castle (1)
BBC (1)
BBC4 (1)
Beauty (1)
Before I Go to Sleep (1)
Beginnings (1)
Behaving Inconsistently (1)
Being Too Literal; Common Pitfalls (1)
Ben Lewin (1)
Ben Miles (1)
Betrayal (1)
Big Apple (1)
Birdsong (1)
Black Swan Green (1)
Blogging (1)
Book Lovers (1)
Book Shelves (1)
Books (2)
Borgen (1)
Boy Meets Girl (1)
Breaking Convention (1)
Breaking Down Writing Barriers (1)
Brett Easton Ellis (1)
Brevity (1)
Bring Up the Bodies (5)
Bristol Festival of Ideas (1)
Bristol Old Vic (2)
Broadway (1)
Building a Character (1)
Building Relationships (1)
Candide (1)
Capital (1)
Catharsis (1)
Catherine Czerkawska (1)
Catherine Ryan Howard (1)
Challenge your Character (1)
Challenges of Writing (1)
Challenging yourself (1)
Change (2)
Channel 4 (1)
Character or Plot? (1)
Characterisation (16)
Characterisation - Appearance (1)
Characterisation - Gender (1)
Characterisation - other people's opinions (1)
Characterisation. (1)
Characters in Action; James Wood How Fiction Works (1)
Charite sur Loire (1)
Charlemagne (1)
Charles Dickens (1)
Charles Edwards (1)
Cheek by Jowl (1)
Chivalry (1)
Choosing a name for your character (1)
Choosing the Right Word (1)
Christopher Vogler (1)
Cirey en Blaise (2)
Claire King (1)
Claire Messud (1)
Claire Tomalin (1)
Clarity (2)
Claude Monet (1)
Cliches (2)
Cliffhangers (2)
Colm Toibin (1)
Common Mistakes (3)
Composite Characterisation (1)
Compulsion (1)
Conceiving a Story (1)
Conditional Tense (1)
Conflict (1)
Constructing a Scene (1)
Construction (1)
Constructive Advice (1)
Constructive Criticism (1)
Contemplation (1)
Context (3)
Contradiction (1)
contradiction; realisation (1)
Contrast (2)
Control Freak (1)
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Conviction; Conventions (1)
Copy Edit (1)
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Cornwall (1)
Creating Narratives (1)
Creative Ambiguity (1)
Creative Chaos (1)
Creative Discrepancy (1)
Creative Inspiration (1)
Creative Process (2)
Creative Processes (1)
Creative Spaces (2)
Creative Uncertainty (2)
Creative Writing (16)
Creative Writing Christmas Carol (1)
Creative Writing Exercises (2)
Creative Writing Groups (1)
Creative Writing. (1)
Creative Writing' The Quality of Silence; Between the Lines (1)
Creatively Unbalanced (1)
Creativity (4)
Creativity. Comfort Zone (1)
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Cuisery (4)
Culture; Language Michael Boyd (1)
Cunard (1)
Cutting (1)
Daniel Woodrell (1)
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Dart (1)
Dartmoor (1)
David Harsent (1)
David Lodge (1)
David Mitchell (2)
David Tennant (1)
Dealing With Criticism of Your Work (1)
Deborah Findlay (1)
Deborah Harvey (3)
Declan Donellan (1)
Denial (Plotting) (1)
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detail (2)
Developing a Character; Ed Reardon (1)
Developing Your Prose Style (1)
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Dialogue -- what is not said (1)
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Dialogue As Description (1)
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Disrupting Your Narrative (1)
Distillation (1)
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Douglas Henshall (1)
Dramatic Irony (2)
E L James (1)
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Easy Steps to Writing Dialogue (1)
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Editing (5)
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Edna Ferber (1)
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Edward Thomas (1)
Eileen Atkins (1)
EL James (1)
Eleanor Farjeon (1)
Electronic Reading (1)
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Emile Zola (1)
Emily Bronte (2)
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Emmanuel Héré (1)
Emotional Intensity (1)
Endings (2)
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Engaging with your Reader (1)
Erasmus (1)
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Ernest Hemingway (2)
Everyday (1)
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Exterior (1)
F Scott Fitzgerald (1)
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Feedback (1)
Fiction Writing (2)
Fiction Writing Feedback for Free (1)
Fictional Beginnings (1)
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Fifty Shades of Grey (1)
Finding Ideas to Write about (1)
Finding Your Voice (1)
Fingersmith (2)
Finishing a novel (1)
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First Kiss (1)
First Person (2)
First Person Narrative (1)
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Ghosts (1)
Giverney (1)
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good writing (1)
Graham Greene (1)
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Grapeds of Wrath (1)
Grapes of Wrath (1)
Growing ideas (2)
Growth (1)
Gustave Flaubert (1)
Hamlet (1)
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Harry Belafonte (1)
Haunting (1)
Having a World View in Fiction (1)
Hay on Wye (1)
Headspace; Perspective (1)
Health and Safety (1)
Hearing / Listening (1)
Heathcliffe (1)
Helen Dunmore (1)
Helen Hunt (1)
Help with Creating Characters (1)
Hilary Mantel (6)
Hilary Mantel; Stephen King (1)
Hilary Mantel; Tim Winton (1)
Hilary Mantel; Humility (2)
Honing Your Work (1)
How Characters Respond (1)
How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Writing Fiction (1)
How to Convey the Past (1)
How to Deal with Writer's Block (1)
How to Get Published (1)
How to Perfect Your Prose (1)
How to Punctuate Your Work (1)
How to Write a Love Story (1)
How to Write a Novel (4)
Hugh Bonneville (1)
Hugo Williams (2)
Ian McEwan (1)
Ian Rankin (1)
Ian Richardson (1)
Iconoclasm (1)
Identification (2)
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Illumination (1)
Imagination (4)
Imagine (1)
Impressionism (1)
Indigo Dreams (1)
Influence (1)
Insincerity (1)
Inspiration (10)
Inspirational Characterisation (1)
Instructions for a Heatwave (1)
Intent; Andrew Graham Dixon (1)
Interior / Exterior Worlds (1)
Interior Landscape (1)
Interior Perspective (1)
Interpretation (1)
Introducing a Character (2)
Irony (1)
Isaac Newton (1)
It Ain't What You Say It's the Way that You Say It (1)
J M Barrie (1)
James Fenton (2)
James Young (1)
Jean Cocteau (1)
Jean Lamour (1)
Jeopardy (1)
Johannes Gutenberg (1)
John Banville (1)
John Ford (1)
John Fowles (1)
John Hawkes (1)
John Keats (1)
John Kennedy (1)
John Lanchester (1)
John Masefield (2)
John Simm (1)
John Steinbeck (2)
Jonathan Coe (1)
Jonathan Franzen (1)
Jonathan Letham (1)
Joseph Anton (1)
Joseph Conrad (1)
Juxtaposition (1)
Juxtaposition As a Writing Tool (1)
Kahlil Gibran (1)
Kate Dunn Author (5)
Kazoo Independent Publishing Services (1)
Kevin McDonald (1)
Kim Bodnia (1)
Kit Williams (1)
Knitting (1)
Kristen Scott Thomas (1)
Kurt Wagner (2)
Lack of Editing (1)
Lack of Planning (1)
Lambchop (1)
Landscape. (1)
Language (8)
Language inflation (1)
Laurence Olivier (1)
Laurie Lee (1)
Lavinia Greenlaw (1)
Layering your Work (1)
Learning to Edit Rigorously (1)
Les Chats Noirs (1)
Les Miserables (1)
Less Is More (1)
Lessons from Life (1)
Lewis Carroll (1)
Libraries (1)
Like Water for Chocolate (1)
Likeability (1)
Literary Accuracy (1)
Literary Come-On (1)
Literary Lessons (1)
Literary Terroir (1)
Literature (1)
Living Creatively (1)
Living Language (1)
Locating a Story in Time and Place (1)
Location (1)
Location; Setting; Motherless Brookly Jonathan Letham (1)
Lorraine Ashbourne (1)
Lorrie Moore (1)
Lost in Translation (3)
Lost in Translation. Cider with Rosie (1)
Louisa Young (2)
Love (1)
Luther (1)
Lycanthropy (1)
Lying Fallow (1)
Lynne Truss (1)
MacPherson Grant (1)
Madame Bovary (2)
Madeline Miller (1)
Maggie O'Farrell (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Making a Relationship with Your Reader (1)
Making Cuts (2)
Man Booker Prize 2012 (1)
Managing Your Research (1)
Mansion of Many Apartments (1)
Marc Chagall (1)
Margaret Atwood (3)
Margaret Leroy (1)
Margaret Mitchell (1)
Margate (1)
Marlon Brando (1)
Martin Amis (1)
Martin Luther King (1)
Mary Rose (1)
Masquerade (1)
Masterclass (1)
Mediaeval Romance (1)
Melodrama (1)
Melvyn Oliver (1)
Memory as Inspiration (1)
Mentoring (1)
Metaphors (1)
Michael Dibdin (1)
Michael Plampin (1)
Michael Winterbottom (1)
Mikael Birkkjær (1)
Miniaturist (1)
Miriam Toews (1)
Moby Dick (1)
Momentum (1)
Mood; pathetic fallacy (1)
Mosaics (1)
Mother's Milk (1)
Motherless Brooklyn (1)
Multi-Tasking (1)
Musicality (1)
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (1)
Names and Identity (1)
Nana (1)
Nancy (2)
Narcissism (1)
Narrative Arc' Structure (1)
Narrative Construction (1)
Narrative depth (1)
Narrative Hinge (1)
Narrative Tension (5)
National Poetry Day (1)
Nemesis (1)
Networking (1)
Neverland (1)
New Testament (1)
New York (2)
Nicholas Farrell (1)
Nicholas Hytner (1)
Nicholson Baker (1)
Nick Dear (2)
Nick Ormerod (1)
Nicola Morgan (1)
Nine Ladies Dancing (1)
North Atlantic (1)
Novel Writing (1)
Nuance (2)
Nuance; translation; context (2)
observation (1)
Oedipus (1)
Of Mice and Men (1)
Olivia Colman (2)
Olympic Fitness Plan for Authors (1)
On Holiday; Inspiration (1)
One Day by David Nichols (1)
Oresund (1)
Originality (4)
Oscar Wilde (1)
Ostensibility (1)
Othello (1)
Over Description (1)
Overhearing - Literary Thrift (1)
Overwriting (1)
Overwriting / Underwriting (1)
Pace (2)
Paragraphs (1)
Particularising the General (1)
Partridge in a Pear Tree (7)
Passage of Time; Change; Growth (1)
Passive Mode (1)
Pat Barker (2)
Pathetic Fallacy (1)
Paul Celan (1)
Paul Gallico (1)
Paul Muldoon (1)
Peace Old Testament (1)
Perfect (1)
Persistence (2)
Perspective (3)
Perspective and Context (1)
Pet Hates in Fiction (1)
Peter Pan (1)
Philip Roth (1)
Philosophical Letters (1)
Phrasing (1)
Place Stanislas (1)
planning (1)
Planning a Book (1)
Planning a Story (1)
Plot / Character Debate (1)
Plot Construction (1)
Plot Structure (1)
Plot structure; Anagnorisis (1)
Plot Synthesis (1)
Plotting (12)
Plotting a Novel (1)
Plotting Made Simple (1)
Pluperfect (1)
Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1)
Point of View (6)
Polarity (1)
polemic (1)
precision (1)
Preparing to Write (1)
Preparing to Write a Novel (1)
Preparing to Write; displacement activity; Goan Dogs (1)
Presence (1)
Present Tense (1)
Printing Press (1)
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Prose As Architecture (1)
Psychology (1)
Publishers' House Style (1)
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Queen Mary 2 (2)
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Radio - Writing Techniques (1)
Radio Writing - Dos and Don'ts (1)
Rainer Maria Rilke (2)
Re-Reading (1)
Re-Writing (1)
Reader - Writer Relationship (1)
Reader Relationships (1)
Reading (5)
Reading a Face (1)
Reading Aloud (1)
Reading and Writing (1)
Reading Your Work Aloud (1)
Realism (1)
Recharging the imagination (1)
Recycling (1)
Reflection; Purpose of Fiction (1)
Regret (1)
Reimagining Your Research (1)
Relationships (1)
Repetition/Structure (2)
Research (2)
Research and Writing Fiction (1)
Researching Your Novel (1)
Resilience. (1)
Resistance (1)
Responding to Criticism (1)
Rewriting (1)
Rhythm (2)
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the Art of Conversation (1)
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