Issue No.

41

Three passes and a walk

Craft · Reading

Manuscript pages with tortoiseshell glasses, a red pen, a map and a mug on an oak table

Dear reader,

My editing routine, laid out.

Clara

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A sharpened pencil, shavings and an eraser on a sheet of cream lined paper

No.

46

Pencil forgives

On first drafts, sharp knives and the HB.

A green portable typewriter on an oak desk by a rainy window, with a cup of tea

No.

45

A fortnight without the laptop

What happened when I wrote only by hand for two weeks.

A moorland footpath beside a drystone wall leading to a wooden stile in the mist

No.

44

The aimless walk

Turning left or right depending on the wind.

As read in

  • The Guardian Country Diary

  • BBC Radio 4

  • Slightly Foxed

  • The Northern Review

  • Granta

  • Caught by the River

  • Countryfile

  • The Bookseller

  • The Guardian Country Diary

  • BBC Radio 4

  • Slightly Foxed

  • The Northern Review

  • Granta

  • Caught by the River

  • Countryfile

  • The Bookseller

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