On The Tenth Day of Christmas

...the best writing advice Rachel Hewitt gave to me

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Here we are on Day Ten and oof, it’s so hard having that alarm go off again in the morning.

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Today, sharing their best writing advice with you, it’s Rachel Hewitt.

Rachel is a critic and broadcaster and best-selling author of three books, Map of a Nation, A Revolution of Feeling, and In Her Nature.

Today, the advice that Rachel is sharing with you is a classic, something that is very easy in theory, yet often much harder in practice. There is also a follow on from what Ian Winwood was discussing yesterday about doing your working out on the page, something which I know resonated for many of you.

Anyway, enough from me, I shall leave Rachel to explain more: