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Alice Jolly

Alice Jolly

Alice Jolly has written two novels and eight plays. She won the Royal Society of Literature’s VS Pritchett Memorial Prize in 2014. Her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns won the Pen/Ackerley Prize in 2016.

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Controlling your fear

Thomas Keneally says that, ‘Writing is an exercise in controlling your fear. Above all the fear that you are not a…

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Don’t let them talk you out of it

Spend a little time identifying who the people are who might tell you not to write your memoir. Once you have…

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Developing a scene

If you are already writing a memoir, look through the work you have done to date and see where the scenes…

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What is a scene?

Novelists are always told to show, not tell. They are also told to ‘write in scenes’ which means broadly the same…

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