Paper Places 10: From Writing in Lockdown to a Publishing Deal, with Kerry Downes
Update: 2025-01-31
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In this episode, Kerry Downes joins Kerry (the regular one) to discuss how one writing course, taken after delving into fiction writing during lockdown, lead to her career as a author.
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Writing Your Novel — 3 Months | Curtis Brown Creative
The course Kerry undertook to write her debut fiction novel.
'Notes to Self' by Emilie Pine
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” — Toni Morrison
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." — Ernest Hemingway
'The Midnight Library' by Matt Haig
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