Best Writing Tips from William Boyd, Claire Messud, Tessa Hadley, Philip Hensher and others

Illustration by Jill Calder in The Guardian Plan your ending About once a month or so, when someone says to me, “I’ve got this great idea for a novel/film/play/TV series” and then outlines the (usually pretty good) opening, I say: “So – how does it end?”. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the answer is: […]