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Why Writers Can’t Go It Alone

November 7, 2018November 9, 2018
by Simon Rae

A date in 1997. A long-deferred date. Deferred for far too long. It is the date I am – finally – sitting down to start writing my biography of the famous Victorian cricketer, W.G.Grace. I have been researching it for months. I have even been to Australia to follow the great man’s footsteps through various Australian archives (tough work, but someone has to do it). I have filled many dossiers with pages of notes. I have gathered a library of books, which now spread out around my desk, marked with multi-coloured post-it notes. Several are already open, in preparation for

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018
by Martin Toseland

‘Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.’ That’s Stephen King stating the indisputable relationship between good writing and reading; or rather, good writers and reading. The quote may be over-used, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Writers have to write, and writers have to read. They may read in a different way from people who read for pleasure but that’s because reading is work. (Admittedly nice work, but work nonetheless.) Watching a writer read, should you be so unlucky, is

October 26, 2018
by PhilipWhiteley

Last month, on the UG blog, we covered how modern communications technology facilitates international collaborations between people who rarely, or perhaps never, actually meet. There is a closely linked theme around the dominance of the English language. This has grown in recent decades. I recall visiting a trade fair in northern Italy in the late 1980s with many visitors from the eastern Mediterranean, where the common language was French. Nowadays, with the rise of China and Pacific trade, and the internationalization of business education based on the US model, English is the lingua franca (why isn’t there an English phrase

October 16, 2018October 16, 2018
by Teena Lyons

So, you’ve decided to work with a ghostwriter. Congratulations. Or, maybe you are just thinking about it. It’s still a good call. The issue you have now is: how do you choose the right ghost for you? On this website there are 13 hugely talented, professional ghosts, all with an enviable record of bestsellers and award-winning books. Take a look at our profiles. We’re all awesome. Ok, I may actually be making the whole decision-making process worse. Let me help you break it down. First and foremost, the goal is to find a ghost who ‘gets’ you. In other words,

October 11, 2018
by ChrisWest

Writing a book is an enormous task. It makes it seem a little less enormous to break it down into stages. The Basics. Your Elevator Pitch. Some people may balk at this, asking angrily what the Elevator Pitch of War and Peace is. But most books benefit from having a basic premise, a basic something that makes them special. If Tolstoy were looking for a book deal today, he might say something like ‘A group of people search for meaningful lives against the background of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia’. Your Target Readership. Think who the book is for. Managers? Women

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