News from Sarah Painter
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Film News: Gods Behaving Badly
I adored Marie Phillips’ Gods Behaving Badly. It’s funny, smart, satirical and has the clever and fully-realised kind of fantasy world that I dream of writing myself. Like Harry Potter or much of Neil Gaiman’s work, the book is set in our reality but with a twist. It’s a world…
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In which I am a winner
The wonderful Lucy March is running a six-week manuscript revision workshop this summer. As much as I coveted the workshop, as much as I knew it was perfect timing (why yes, I do have a completed manuscript that I’m trying to wrestle into shape at This Very Moment), and as much as…
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Chasing the shiny
I just read a fabulous blog post by Jennifer Crusie that has made me feel a great deal better about my scatter-brained, continually distracted work ‘method’. She describes cognitive disinhibition and how the inability to ‘stay on topic’ and the tendency to get distracted by – and the inclination to…