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Anne Goodwin’s drive to understand what makes people tick led to a career in clinical psychology. That same curiosity now powers her fiction.

Anne writes about the darkness that haunts her and is wary of artificial light. She makes stuff up to tell the truth about adversity, creating characters to care about and stories to make you think. She explores identity, mental health and social justice with compassion, humour and hope.

A prize-winning short-story writer, she has published three novels and a short story collection with small independent press, Inspired Quill. Her debut novel, Sugar and Snails, was shortlisted for the 2016 Polari First Book Prize
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Anne Goodwin When I first started writing, I was dismissive of writer’s block. I saw it as a pretentious term for what ordinary mortals experienced as anything alo…moreWhen I first started writing, I was dismissive of writer’s block. I saw it as a pretentious term for what ordinary mortals experienced as anything along the continuum from a bit fed up to clinical depression. Until I started hating my novel …
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Anne Goodwin People say you have only one life but, as a writer, we can live several without leaving the house. Not only that, we can constantly contradict ourselv…morePeople say you have only one life but, as a writer, we can live several without leaving the house. Not only that, we can constantly contradict ourselves, explore alternate ways of being – a bit like an adolescent trying different personas before they settle on their adult selves … which just happens to be one of the themes of my novel, Sugar and Snails, which I wrote about in a guest post here: https://broccoliaddict.wordpress.com/...(less)
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Pride, prejudice and enduring popularity

Hard to believe it's almost a year since I posted here. On the other hand, it feels so long I'd almost forgotten how to do it. I'm mostly on my other website – which you can find via this link (ANNE GOODWIN'S WRITING NEWS) – but this, a version of my latest newsletter, seems more appropriate for Annecdotal.

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“I write to tame and organise the thoughts that bubble in my head. I write for the part of me that’s inconsolable and don’t have the hands or the talent for painting, pottery or the piano. I write because it’s proven more effective than screaming to communicate my personal truths. I write because publication provides the perfect payback for a painful childhood and because I’m addicted to alliteration, a glutton for grammar and ruled by the rule of three. I continue writing to discover where my imagination will take me; because if I stopped, I’d no longer be me.”
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“Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.”
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“What I long for with a deep ache inside me is sacred music. I long for the Fauré Requiem, for the Haydn “Mass in Time of War,” for some pure celestial music that could lift me above myself, into that sphere where great art lives, beyond what man can be in himself, the intimation of the sacred—what cannot be dirtied or smudged by wickedness or by anger, which no threat can touch.”
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“Old age is really a disguise that no one but the old themselves see through. I feel exactly as I always did, as young inside as when I was twenty-one, but the outward shell conceals the real me—sometimes even from itself—and betrays that person deep down inside, under wrinkles and liver spots and all the horrors of decay. I sometimes think that I feel things more intensely than I used to, not less. But I am so afraid of appearing ridiculous. People expect serenity of the old. That is the stereotype, the mask we are expected to put on. But”
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“My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a “symptom”? There”
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