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So this is the opening of my WIP Mrs George Wedgwood to her brother-in-law, Mr Thomas Wedgwood, June 1778 Catchpool House Edron, Kent Wednesday My dear Thomas, I assume that you have not heard that George has been killed. Things such as this never seem to make the newspapers in town, which I find qu...

Well I mainly buy second hand, because of cost, and also I read mainly older books. but reading this thread, where most of you are American I am shocked that you can get paperbacks in the $10-15 range and consider $20 pricey. Here in Australia your average paperback can be $25-35 easily, more if it'...

I think a lot of it comes down to what the book's like. Recently i read Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin' and was blown away by the writing style and her ability as a word smith. I have found since I started writing seriously about four years ago I have started to pay much more attention to the...

I am 17 and in my last year of high school. I have also been writing my novel in its current form for about two years. I do have trouble juggling everything, especially at the moment as I have my half-yearly exams coming up. How I get my writing done is I get up at 5.45am most mornings and get about...

i don't have a writing space as such. When I first started writing my novel i taught myself to write wherever, I can write with noise, distractions etc. Working on it during science class helped a lot with that.

well I have just finished this after a five hour reading out loud session with my friends. we have read all the books to each other, which really prolongs the agony. I actually really loved the ending. We all felt beforehand that there was a chance it could turn into a really bad teenage sop ending ...

I'm sixteen and have been writing my novel seriously since I was fourteen. At the moment I'm getting a fair bit done, but with the amount of school work (I'm in Year 11, second last year of school here in Australia) it is slower than I would like. Probably not a good bit of advice to follow, but las...

When my WIP is finished I'm giving it to my best friend because I absolutely trust her to give a ruthless critique of the entire thing. Also she's been the one I'm running most of my ideas past as I'm writing it.

I tested the prologue plus the first chapter of my WIP. The prologue (which is a letter written in the eighteenth century) came out as Jane Austen. Not very surprised there. Part One of my first chapter also came out as Jane Austen, Part Two as William Gibson and Part Three as Jonathon Swift spelt o...

I am not usually a re reader either, but I must have read Wuthering Heights at least three times straight through, as well as all the times I've just read my favourite parts.

Anna Karenina Excellent book, hated the ending. Not the bit that happens at the train station, but how he never tied it up and how the last fifty pages was just a whole lot of philosophical ramblings. Loved the rest of the book but

A really good book with double narrative structure is 'The House at Riverton' by Kate Morton (called The Shifting Fog in Australia) It's told from the point of view of the one charcter but is set in two different time periods that are both revealed to the reader at the simltaneously. Morton's second...

How much of your bookshelf comprises of second hand books? For me, I'd say about 98%. It does help I read alot of the old classics, but going to a second hand book shop and splurging on three or four books, the combined cost about half what you'd pay for one new book, is suh a good feeling.

Anna Karenina. Eventhough i read mainly classic fiction I am finding thw writing style of this one quite easy to read, except when it desends into chapters of Russian politics.

Shakespeare, Emily bronte and Suzanne Collins