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Take a blank sheet of garden…

Talking about muck-raking, sorry, rock-raking, reminded me about the parallels of writing a novel and creating a new garden.

With a novel, you start with a blank sheet of paper, or a blank computer screen, with a garden you start with something like this.

You carry out a survey and draw […]

Rock-raking is the new editing.

Friends who follow me on Twitter (@alison_morton) have been hearing about my rock-raking in recent days. Let me explain. We live on top of a chalk cliff. The view is magnificent, but the soil is crap. That’s a bit harsh. The soil is fertile, fine, and the weeds grow as if on Viagra. But there […]

Confronting my first novel...

When I starting this scribbling business in 2009, I wrote the second part of my trilogy first. I didn’t know I had at the time. I sat down one morning in front of my computer and typed for three months.

As a professional translator, I knew it would have to edit anything I produced. I […]