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Thursday 24 April 2014

The Write Advice 048: HILARY MANTEL


Write the book you’d like to read.  There’s no point following a trend –– it will be over by the time you submit your manuscript.

While writing your first novel, start cultivating the seeds of your second, so that you have a plan to put to agents and publishers.

Your early work is vulnerable, so protect it.  You’re not obliged to explain or excuse your new trade as writer.  Show it to people who can help you professionally, and to trusted friends if you want a confidence boost, but don’t confuse a confidence boost with a literary analysis.
 

Mslexia: For Women Who Write [date unspecified]

 

Use the link below to read more about the life and work of British novelist HILARY MANTEL:

 

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/hilary-mantel

 

 

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