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Catherine J. Bowness

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Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Beatrix Potter, Emile Bronte

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November 2014


I began writing novels at school but was too shy to let anyone see them so I carried on making them up in my head. As a lonely child in boarding school, this was my drug of choice and I became quite addicted to it - as also to reading - always novels. I don't especially like films because I want to imagine the people and sets for myself not have them imposed on me by a director and producer. I believe this is the power of novels: the reader must work in concert with the writer to create the magic. ...more

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Catherine J. Bowness I make myself write 500 words a day, even if most of them have to be deleted later. It keeps me going and usually leads to a better place eventually.
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