From starting a novel to finding an agent, advice for aspiring writers
World Service,Β·8 episodes
Is writing a calling rather than a profession?
Rose Tremain, Ruth Rendell, and Paul Bailey discuss what makes an idea worthy of a novel
Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury and Claire Boylan on giving characters a background
How to decide where to set your book - what landscape, milieu, place or time?
What is meant by "voice" in fiction? And how can a writer develop their own?
How to write something - dialogue - that you don't want to sound written at all
What to do when endings don't suggest themselves, and who to get to read the first draft
What the literary agent, the publisher, and the book seller, do and want
