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Kit de Waal
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Texture, colour, shape ….
Too many adjectives fight with one another and weaken prose. Too few and the reader won’t be immersed in the scene. Add texture to your writing by taut, spare descriptions using all the senses but necessarily in the same scene. Touch in one scene, smell in another and so forth. That way it won’t overwhelm the reader but bring your scenes alive.
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My Name is Leon
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2016
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39 editions
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The Trick to Time
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2018
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12 editions
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Sweet Pea
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2025
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8 editions
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
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2022
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6 editions
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Six Foot Six
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2018
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Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
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2019
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Becoming Dinah
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2019
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Supporting Cast
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2020
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4 editions
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Quick Reads 2024
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Exterior Paint
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“When people fuck with you, you gotta choice. You can fuck back or swallow down. Swallow down enough times and you start to choke. Or you can learn to accept. Let go. Breathe easy.”
― My Name is Leon
― My Name is Leon
“one day, you will want these hours back, my girl. You will wonder how you lost them and you will want to get them back. There's a trick to time.”
― The Trick to Time
― The Trick to Time
“He feels a dark star of pain in his throat and the last warmth of her touch on his fingers. When”
― My Name Is Leon
― My Name Is Leon
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