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The World in Story

I’m currently reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Through Bronte’s brilliant writing, I can see Jane on the page, and also the world that she lived in. This is most vivid to me in the powerful scene after Jane has left Thornfield. She spends the night under...

Where the Story Begins

Beatrix Potter said: “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” I don’t know where the idea for a story begins. It’s just there inside my head, like a vision, but...