On the Eleventh Day of Christmas

...the best writing advice Lorraine Candy gave to me

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Here we are, one day from the end of my Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice series – it’s Day Eleven.

And the author who will be sharing her wisdom with you on this penultimate day in the series is Lorraine Candy.

Lorraine is an author, editor and broadcaster. She was formally editor of Elle, Cosmopolitan and the Sunday Times Style magazines. She co-hosts the Postcards from Midlife podcast with Trish Halpin, and she is also author of two books, ‘Mum, What’s Wrong with You?’ and ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’

Lorraine has managed to fit in so much great advice on writing non-fiction in her essay today, and so, it is over to her: