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Mike NicolThe writing life, writing by others, quotes from writers, writing guides & tips.
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Doing the FLF
There are festivals that are fun, and then there are festivals that are - to use the jargon - “super” fun. The Franschhoek Literary Festival this past weekend fell into the super fun category.
It started at the opening cocktail party on Th...
The weirdness of sprouting corpses
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Fantasising in winter
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My name is Bond, James Bond
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The FLF
1. Some winter fantasising because what else is winter for? Okay, I know I’ve been here before but this is a slightly different take. Consider a mysterious figure...
Boom dizzied
Kate Turkington - intrepid traveller in Tunisia
Tunnel 1. Jolling in Tunisia
Tunnel 2. The skiet and the donder
Tunnel 3. Mea culpa
Most (maybe all) of the writers I know, hate marketing their just published books. Consider this: writer...
Life of a Writer
Note the defensive folded arms.
Coming up in two weeks time is the much anticipated Franschhoek Literary Festival (15, 16, 17 May) that readers and writers can’t get enough of. As usual there’s a helluva great programme which you’ll find...
Down to earth
Photo thanks to Haike Frank on LinkedIn.
There’s been a fair amount of commentary just recently about what writers need to do regarding self-promotion. Most of this has happened in the aftermath of the Helen DeWitt saga where she turned do...
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Where to begin? South Africa, Cape Town. Where I look out on wind-blown False Bay and write crime thrillers, run a nine-month online writing class, and, once, was a journalist. Most evenings the sun goes down in a glass of red wine.
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