Novel Writing – Alex Lockwood

Alex Lockwood

Writer, activist and public speaker

The other day I said I’d go and meet H at 1230. We arranged this a couple of hours...

(A short exercise in “putting the problem into the writing” based on a character from my novel.) The vague...

A fair few months ago I had a conversation with a colleague about my novel. I’d just finished the...

Thanks to Em Strang (http://emstrang.wordpress.com/) for tagging me in the BLOG HOP. What is the working title of your...

I am in love with words and books and stories. One of the greatest frustrations is a bad book,...

“If you could plant one seed,” David asks Esther, “what would it be?” He didn’t mean the seed of...

April, it seems, is the hardest month. I come out of the blocks in January committed to making the...

Andrew Miller’s Pure was the 2011 Costa Book of the Year. Set a few years before the French Revolution...

The thing I notice most about novelist Haruki Murakami’s style is this: a sense that when I pick up...