Ask the Author: Stephen Lycett
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Stephen Lycett
From reading about the Voynich manuscript.
Stephen Lycett
I wish I knew! If i did, I'd know where to go out and find it.
Stephen Lycett
Like Mr Blackwood's Fabularium it'a piece of what I call 'portfolio fiction', a collection of small-scale narratives that make up a larger, overarching one. It's the story of a mysterious book and the various people who have owned or interpreted it down the ages.
Stephen Lycett
Learn to become an analytical reader. Observe how good writers do things - change subject or direction (often hard to do unobtrusively); how often they use adjectives or, better still, how they avoid them; how they strike a balance between narrative and dialogue; how they vary their sentence types.
Stephen Lycett
The days when the word just spill out of your pen - or in my case, pencil.
Stephen Lycett
For me there are two kinds of block. The first is where I can't get the wording right; the second is where I'm stuck for an idea. To cure the first you need persistence; to cure the second go for a bike ride, I get a lot if ideas on a bike.
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