Tag Archives: romance

Vampires

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 by Hannah
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Love is Blind (reading-as-a-writer 14)

Posted on Jan 3, 2019 by Hannah
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The Incurable Romantic (research review)

Posted on Sep 11, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram The Incurable Romantic by Frank Tallis (2018) is compulsive background reading for a writer of #historicalromance. Falling in love is “a combustable state that reproduces the symptoms of psychiatric illness” and, when love goes wrong, … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Writing Sex (research review)

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram I read The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers by Elizabeth Benedict (revised edition 2001) on Kindle, which may accounts for the boring cover image. Sorry about that – and apologies also … Continue reading →

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Babes in the Wood

Posted on Aug 7, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram My writer’s mind is very weird and wonderful. I’ve been struggling to define a key relationship in my book between two young and very frightened people in the midst of war and the phrase “babes … Continue reading →

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A Winter’s Child (reading-as-a-writer 3)

Posted on Aug 7, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram My #writinginspiration: “A Winter’s Child” by Brenda Jagger. Why – oh why! – is Brenda Jagger no longer widely read? Published in 1984 this post #WW1 novel (and Jagger’s other eight Victorian/Edwardian era books) beats … Continue reading →

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