🎵On The Fourth Day of Christmas
The writing advice Nick Hornby gave to me
Here we are on the fourth day of Christmas, all bubble and squeaked out, but ready for more writing advice I hope. Do let me know how you have been enjoying the series so far.
If you missed it, yesterday we had some wonderful writing advice from
which you can find here:🎵On The Third Day of Christmas
How are you keeping up with this year’s Twelve Days of Christmas Writing Advice? Are you enjoying it day-by-day, or are you intending to binge it like a festive box-set at the end? I’d love to know.
But who is sharing their writing wisdom with you today? Let’s take a look…
It’s
. Nick is an author and screenwriter, he is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch and novels, High Fidelity and About A Boy, all of which were made into movies.
He is the author of seven other novels and many, many other short stories and non-fiction books including Dickens & Prince, published in 2022. Nick also has a brilliant Substack, A Fan’s Notes which you can find here.
His novels have won and been shortlisted for prizes such as the E M Forster Award, the Whitbread Novel Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards and Baftas for his adaptations of An Education and the Colm Tóibin novel, Brooklyn. In 2010, Nick co-founded Ministry of Stories, a writing charity based in east London.
So let’s see what writing wisdom he has for you today on the fourth day of Christmas: