Nine drafts, one abandoned narrator and a winter of walking: how the middle of a novel almost defeated me, and what finally unlocked it.
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Long partnerships are made of glances, not speeches. Notes on writing the quiet negotiations that hold two people together for decades.
Some seasons produce pages and some produce patience. A record of the months when the book refused to move, and the walks that kept it…
A failing comedian is hired to entertain a research station deep in the rainforest, where his only reliable audience has feathers.
Ten sealed jars arrive at a small-town police station, one each morning, and the detective who opens them begins to recognise her own handwriting.