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Remember all those ‘compositions’ you had to write when you were in primary school? Remember the laborious string of sentences you used to make up, one after the other, documenting all the things [...]

Rules for Writers, chapter four: why you need to feed your imagination, and how to do that.

Rule Number Three of There Are No Rules for writers is this: if you want to write, then you need to draw up a contract with yourself to make the writing happen.

The second chapter of my rules for writers: inspiration.

There are no rules about writing. But…

It’s impossible, I know, to address all the challenges, pitfalls and joys of the writing process in one arbitrary list of rules. And really, the truth is that there are no ‘Rules for Writers’ at all.