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You Should Be Writing – or – On the Subject of Willpower, Motivation and Guilt

I should be writing. Right now, I should be sitting down at my desk cranking out the words like a machine. I should not be looking at twitter, reading books, eating dinner, washing the dishes, brushing my teeth, scrolling through Netflix new releases, going out with friends or doing anything else that might be construed …

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#thisbook Top 20

In May 2014 the Baileys Women’s prize for fiction launched the #thisbook campaign to find out which books, written by women, had the largest impact on readers.  The list below are the top twenty books. The books I’ve read are in bold. Where I have written about the book in the blog, you can click on the …

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