Ask the Author: Kate Fulford
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Kate Fulford
By just writing! I try to write to treat writing like a job & aim to be structured in my approach to time. You simply have to sit down and get on with it.
Kate Fulford
Regardless of what I’m actually writing, I have always enjoyed structuring and shaping words to convey meaning. I worked as a copywriter for several years and good copy is precise, succinct, and has to get ideas across clearly and simply.
Fiction writing brings together the practical skill of writing and creativity. I can’t imagine why anyone wants to do anything else!
Fiction writing brings together the practical skill of writing and creativity. I can’t imagine why anyone wants to do anything else!
Kate Fulford
Well, they say 'write about what you know'. Anything other than that, and I plead the fifth amendment!
Kate Fulford
First, write. I heard a composer say that the magic only happens when he is sitting at his piano, and I think that the same applies to writing. You simply have to sit down and get on with it. And don’t fill your head with other writers’ ideas about how you should work. Where, when and how you write is unique to you, there is no magic formula.
Second, edit. No one writes beautifully or totally coherently straight out of the blocks. Think of a book as Michelangelo thought of the marble that became David. You have to start somewhere, and you have to chip away at it for a good long time. A lot of what you write will be lost by the final edit, but if it ain’t there to edit, you’ve got nothing!
Third, take advice. I learnt as a copywriter not to be precious about my work. Everyone benefits from getting help, so long as it’s constructive and comes from
Second, edit. No one writes beautifully or totally coherently straight out of the blocks. Think of a book as Michelangelo thought of the marble that became David. You have to start somewhere, and you have to chip away at it for a good long time. A lot of what you write will be lost by the final edit, but if it ain’t there to edit, you’ve got nothing!
Third, take advice. I learnt as a copywriter not to be precious about my work. Everyone benefits from getting help, so long as it’s constructive and comes from
Kate Fulford
Sometimes an idea might develop from something that’s happened to me, but then I take that and bend and twist into a narrative that I hope will engage people, as real life stories don’t tend to offer up perfectly formed story arcs without quite a lot of help.
Kate Fulford
I’m currently finishing a book inspired by the idea of the multiverse. This posits that there are infinite universes out there in which infinite versions of each of us exist. What might happen, I wondered, if you could visit these other universes?
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