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Vox: Short audio from the RLF

Royal Literary Fund

Short audio series where RLF writers explore topics around writing.

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2:28

Menna van Praag: The Writer And Technology

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2023/12/22

'When the online customer support person told me – brightly – to ‘have a nice day’ it took all the willpower I possessed not to scream expletives. 'When informed that this cloud hadn’t magically saved all my lost books, I burst into tears and, when the online customer support person told me – brightly – to ‘have a nice day’ it took all the willpower I possessed not to scream expletives in response.

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2:28

Menna van Praag – The Writer And Technology

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2023/12/22

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2:51

James Attlee – The Perfect Place To Write

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2023/12/21

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2:51

James Attlee: The Perfect Place To Write

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2023/12/21

'After commuting for twelve years, I told GWR I had written three books on their train, and that I should be made their writer in residence.'After commuting for twelve years, I went freelance. I told GWR I had written three books on their train, and that I should be made their writer in residence. To my surprise they agreed, giving me a staff pass that allowed free travel on their network.

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3:04

Rebecca Colby: In My Bottom Drawer

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2023/12/20

'My bottom drawer is more of a recycling bin than a bottom drawer. My intention is for nothing to stay in it forever. 'My bottom drawer is more of a recycling bin than a bottom drawer. With the knowledge that no writing is ever wasted, my intention is for nothing to stay in it forever. Instead, it serves as a temporary storage space for stories I plan to revise.

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3:04

Rebecca Colby – In My Bottom Drawer

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2023/12/20

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3:00

Garry MacKenzie: How I Write

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2023/12/19

'I score out phrases, draw connecting arrows between ideas, and play around with words on the page. A mouse and keyboard would slow me down.'I score out phrases, draw connecting arrows between ideas, and play around with the position of words on the page. Using a mouse and keyboard would slow me down. I rewrite obsessively. Every few lines I'll start redrafting what I’ve written so far.

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Garry MacKenzie – How I Write

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2023/12/19

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2:55

Kim Curran: Why I Write

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2023/12/18

'Writing is dreams caught in butterfly nets. It’s falling in love for the first time. It’s adventures my knees are too old to have. 'Writing is dreams caught in butterfly nets. It’s falling in love for the first time. It’s adventures my knees are too old to have. And mysteries my brain is too dull to solve. Writing is my escape. My means of coming back to myself. I write because I love it.

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2:55

Kim Curran – Why I Write

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2023/12/18

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5:10

Michaela Morgan: Getting Published: What No One Tells...

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2023/12/15

'Gather a few authors together in a room and does the conversation veer towards culture, philosophy, art…literature? No, it does not. It focuses on complaints.'Gather a few authors together in a room and does the conversation veer towards culture, philosophy, art…literature? No, it does not. It focuses on complaints — publicists, publishers, party invitations (lack of), editors and of course…earnings.

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Michaela Morgan – Getting Published: What No One...

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2023/12/15

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2:48

Charlie Hill: My Most Treasured Moments As A Writer

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2023/12/14

'Wandering around a music festival, a fella pointed a camera at me. ‘You wrote that book, didn’t you?’ he said. ‘I did!’ I said, thrilled, ‘did you like it?’ ‘I’m not sure,’ he said.'Wandering around a music festival, a fella pointed a camera at me. ‘You wrote that book, didn’t you?’ he said. ‘I did!’ I said, thrilled, ‘did you like it?’ ‘I’m not sure,’ he said and hid any fanboy excess behind a look that might be described as unnerving...

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2:48

Charlie Hill – My Most Treasured Moments As A Writer

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2023/12/14

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3:16

Alex Nye – The Writer And Nature

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2023/12/13

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3:16

Alex Nye: The Writer And Nature

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2023/12/13

'Nature is everywhere. It’s ugly and visceral and full of decay. It's in the rust on the bicycle and the weeds appearing uninvited between the cracks. 'I note that the café has an atmosphere of carefully crafted urban decay, mostly accidental. Nature is everywhere. It’s ugly and visceral and full of decay. It's in the rust on the bicycle and the weeds appearing uninvited between the cracks.

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2:38

Sarah Jasmon – Letter To My Younger Self

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2023/12/12

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2:38

Sarah Jasmon: Letter To My Younger Self

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2023/12/12

'The advice that the editor gave, that readers want to know more about the kestrel flying above the rainbow and less about what it’s like to change a tyre in the rain? They’re not wrong.'The advice that the editor gave, that the readers want to know more about the kestrel flying above the rainbow that you see from the mountain pass in Wales and less about what it’s like to change a tyre in the rain? They’re not wrong.

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3:10

Richard Lambert: Rejection

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2023/12/11

'I began to internalise the rejections, to believe in a way I hadn’t when I was younger, that the editors, agents, publishers were right — my work wasn’t good enough.'I began to internalise the rejections, to believe in a way I hadn’t when I was younger, that the editors, agents, publishers were right — my work wasn’t good enough; of course they didn’t want it. The rejections began to affect me. They began to fray me.

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3:10

Richard Lambert – Rejection

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2023/12/11

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