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Helen Barbour

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Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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June 2015

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Helen Barbour was born and brought up in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and now lives in Derby.

She began her working life as a journalist on the Express & Star evening newspaper in Wolverhampton, and has written for the lifestyle magazine, Complete Wellbeing, and for the mental health charities Mind and OCD Action. For several years, she also blogged – as The Reluctant Perfectionist – about living with obsessive compulsive disorder, perfectionism and anxiety, before moving to writing about dementia and elderly care.

Helen enjoys red wine, live stand-up comedy and adventurous travel and experiences, which have included trips to the Arctic, ballooning and a tandem skydive. Her life’s ambition is to figure out what ‘good enough’ means.

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Helen Barbour Ensure you’re equipped with a good understanding of basic grammar and punctuation, as well as the essential writing principles. These days, you must g…moreEnsure you’re equipped with a good understanding of basic grammar and punctuation, as well as the essential writing principles. These days, you must get your work in the best possible shape ahead of submitting to agents/publishers or self-publishing.

With every draft of my novel, I was honing my craft, but there were some fundamental gaps in my knowledge at the outset. I had the bitter experience of finally learning how to use a semi-colon properly and then having to check every last one in a 95,000+ word manuscript…thank goodness for the ‘Find’ facility!(less)

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Helen Barbour I was inspired to write about mental health issues by my own experience of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. There is still a hug…moreI was inspired to write about mental health issues by my own experience of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. There is still a huge amount of stigma around mental health, and I wanted to raise awareness and understanding, but to do this in an accessible way.(less)

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Earlier this month, my workplace hosted a Dementia Friends’ information session. Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society initiative that aims to transform the way people think, talk and act in regard to dementia. I expected to be familiar with much of the course content, but opted to attend anyway, to formalise my support of this cause – I am now the proud owner of a pin badge confirming my Read more of this blog post »

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