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Fiona Mitchell is an award-winning writer and has worked as a journalist for many years. She is the author of two novels, both published by Hodder & Stoughton - the newly published The Swap as well as her debut The Maid's Room which she wrote after living in Singapore for three years. She now lives in London with her husband and daughter. ...more

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	The Maid's Room 3.67 avg rating — 886 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Swap 3.63 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology: Vol 9 by Joe Melia (Editor), Stefanie Seddon, Tanner McSwain (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the summer is ripe like a bunch of dead fruits: Kindle,eBooks 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 7] [By: Various Authors] [October, 2014] by Chris Edwards-Pritchard, Fiona Mitchell (Goodreads Author), Mahsuda Snaith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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How to Write a First Draft

The last time I wrote a novel (my third), I thought it’d be a good idea to record how I wrote the first draft. Except that I didn’t end up creating that crib sheet then. So now, as I’m about to start writing my fourth novel, here it comes, that crib sheet:

The Idea

Ideas, they’re tricky little blighters, aren’t they? I mean how do you know whether you’re going to be able to stick with that idea

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The Things We Never Say

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Orbital

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The History of Love

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Fiona’s Quotes

“You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.”
― Doris Lessing

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