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Animals Are More Like People Than We Are
While Thomas was moping in a wine bar, feeling sorry that no one gave a toss about his books, someone else felt sorry for him also, and...


Hyper-characterisation
One of the things that stands out about Thomas’ writing, besides it being dreadful, is appalling characterisation. In an interview with...


Write Quietly And Carry A Large Pen
Occasionally, Thomas stumbles across a writer—often in a library—keen to advertise how brilliant their writing is, by sighing, weeping,...


The New Fiction: Dullism
Thomas was advised by a fellow writer (one who could write, as opposed to the “vague arrangement of loosely related words” she described...


Third Person Avoids Embarrassment
After an argument, Thomas was advised not to write his blog in the third person because it implied that he wasn’t responsible for it. He...


Why Edit Fiction? I Mean, It's Fiction.
Recently, Thomas attended a writers’ conference in Newcastle where he gave a presentation entitled “Is editing really necessary?”...


What Audience?
A good excuse for Thomas having no idea who his audience might be, is the notion that the genre of the Dooven books is such a convoluted...


Is Bad Writing Always Bad Writing?
One of the advantages about writing novels badly is that there’s the likelihood of improving over time. But what if one doesn’t want to...
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