Novelist Freya Berry (The Dictator’s Wife) shares her five rules for writing an anti-heroine

Novelist Zoë Somerville on how to use the countryside to unsettle your readers

Author and journalist Christina Patterson on how to write a memoir

Novelist Jan Carson on how to write about Northern Ireland

Music biographer Richard Balls on how to interview difficult people

Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson on how to write idly

Debut novelist Virginia Feito on how to write an unlikeable character

Journalist and author Lesley-Ann Jones on how to write a rock biography

Songwriter and lyricist Rob Davis on how to write a hit song

Nina-Sophia Miralles on how to write about Vogue

Jay Glennie on how to write about the making of Hollywood movies

French novelist Jean-Baptiste Andrea on how to write that difficult second novel

Author and journalist Pete Paphides on how to write about childhood

Tom Holland on how to write riveting ancient history

Historian Dr Gillian O'Brien on how to write "dark history"

Words and picture sisters Scarlett and Sophie Rickard on making stunning graphic novels

Journalist and author Dylan Jones on the art of interviewing for an oral biography

Horror king Matt Wesolowski on how to write supernaturally-tinged crime

Cultural inspector David Hepworth on how to write rock history

Thriller novelist Sabine Durrant on generating exquisite tension