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How to write a plot – novelist MJ Hyland’s advice

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Saturday 15th October 2011

A staggering 150,000 books were published in the UK last year – yet thousands of us yearn to add even more to the pile. Writing’s a long, hard, solitary business so I’m always looking for ways to escape my office. On a sunny autumn morning I came up with the perfect plan and drove 40 miles through the stunning Cotswolds countryside to attend a Writing a Good Plot workshop at ...keep reading