News from Sarah Painter

  • Back to work

    I’m back! After the Big Rewrite I had a week off (a staycation with my lovely family). We took the kids to the beach, had a couple of days out in Edinburgh and went on a camping trip with friends. We had lie-ins in the mornings and wine at night…

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  • Writers on writing: F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Letters of Note features this gem written by Fitzgerald to an aspiring writer and family friend who asked him for feedback on a story. “You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell…

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  • Done!

    Yes, there’ll almost certainly be another rewrite further down the line and, if I’m lucky enough to get a publishing deal, further edits and copy editing and all that, but right now I’m breathing a big sigh of relief. I finished the book. Now I can enjoy the fact that…

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