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Richard Butchins

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I am an award winning documentary maker and author. Pavement is my first novel published by London based publishers Cutting Edge Press. I'm currently working on a collection of short stories that is becoming a novel, possibly a parallequel to Pavement and also co-authoring a biography of the actor Bob Hoskins for Random House. I live in London and do not have a cat. ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Richard Butchins I beat it into submission with a tyre iron. You only ever seem to hear about writers block. I never heard of a plumber or a car mechanic going "Oh I c…moreI beat it into submission with a tyre iron. You only ever seem to hear about writers block. I never heard of a plumber or a car mechanic going "Oh I can't fix your sink/car. I've got plumbers block". In fact next time I'll call a plumber to remove my "writers" block. It's just fear...(less)

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How is your new novel coming along? Am looking forward to reading it!

Richard Butchins It's proving a long difficult process but I have written 5 chapters now ! …moreIt's proving a long difficult process but I have written 5 chapters now ! (less)

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What is meaning? I have no idea. It's an abstract concept individual humans ascribe to things or people or ideas but it doesn't exist. In the same way love or hypnosis doesn't exist and yet we all believe in it - like it or not....Not, in my case.

I have given up writing my great second novel I ran out of things to say. I stare at the page and nothing happens after a couple of hours I shut it down Read more of this blog post »

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