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Author of The Boy With Blue Trousers and The Concubine's Child. Also writing as Julie Brooks

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In Praise of My Thesaurus

By: Carol Jones December 6, 2017January 16, 2018
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I found my thesaurus buried like treasure in a tub of books at my local charity shop almost forty years ago.

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Picture Books for Writers

By: Carol Jones November 22, 2017December 15, 2017
Research, Writing hints, Writing researcharchives, maps, old photographs, pictorial research

You know the old saying, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’.

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Six Tips for Revising

By: Carol Jones October 16, 2017December 13, 2017
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The most difficult part of revising is tricking your brain into seeing your work in a new way.

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A Day in This Writer’s Life

By: Carol Jones October 4, 2017November 25, 2017
Writing hints, Writing researchfeatured, writing, writing habits

I am definitely not the kind of hardworking writer who gets in three hours of writing before breakfast.

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