News from Sarah Painter

  • Authors for the Philippines

    In 2011, following the Japanese tsunami, YA author Keris Stainton, set up a charity auction called Authors For Japan. She raised £13,000 to help those in dire need. In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, she’s doing it again. Authors for the Philippines is live now. You can…

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  • Writing Challenge Check In: Week 2

    Hello my lovelies, I hope your week was word-filled and wonderful! Okay. I’ll level with you all. Mine was… Fine. Not brilliant, but not bad. I got 3322 new words down (which doesn’t include the words I wrote and then deleted when I realised they were very wrong). I got…

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  • One word after another…

    I’ve hit one of those points in my WIP when I’m stuck and a bit bored and it seems suddenly pointless and ridiculous, and all I want to do is read good books instead (books which are brilliant and clever and imaginative and, above all, not in crappy first draft…

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