Alex Lockwood

Writer, activist and public speaker
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Working with outlines, doing away with time

  • December 19
  • Alex Lockwood
  • 5

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

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Novel Writing, Writing

The vague feeling of love

  • March 19
  • Alex Lockwood
  • 1

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

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40before40, Novel Writing, Writing Blog

Talking about your work

  • March 10
  • Alex Lockwood

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

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Novel Writing, Writing Blog

Blog Hop: The Novel

  • February 20
  • Alex Lockwood

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

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40before40, Novel Writing, Writing Blog

Modelling the books

  • February 19
  • Alex Lockwood
  • 4

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

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Activism, Novel Writing, The Fire Bible, VB40

World Vegan Day (of the Dead)

  • November 1
  • Alex Lockwood

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

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Novel Writing, Poetry, Writing Blog

April is the hardest month

  • May 2
  • Alex Lockwood

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

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Novel Writing, On Reading, Writing Blog

Notes on Stucture: Andrew Miller’s Pure

  • December 29
  • Alex Lockwood

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

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Novel Writing, Running, Writing Blog

Murakami on Writing, Running

  • December 26
  • Alex Lockwood

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

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