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PART I The Writer's Path: How to plan, be creative and find flow
Listen now | 3-Part Masterclass: Part I Planning for Success
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Sanjida Kay
The 10 best books to read to help with planning and productivity
Kickstart your year with these inspiring reads to help you build habits, stay focused, and achieve your goals
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Transform your Writing with Expert Mentoring!
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Start here! Welcome to Wild Writing with Sanjida
Hi there, I’m Sanjida. I’m an award-winning author - I write novels and non-fiction under my own name of Sanjida O’Connell, and psychological thrillers…
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Wilderness: Chapter 10
The Haw Lantern: In which the new hedge arrives and we dream of waxwings and May blossom
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The Coffee House

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32:41
PART I The Writer's Path: How to plan, be creative and find flow
Listen now | 3-Part Masterclass: Part I Planning for Success
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Sanjida Kay
The Power of Precision: How to Write Specifically to Create Universality
A workshop on specificity in writing
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REPLAY How to deal with feedback
A workshop on what to do when feedback hurts
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Calendar
What's coming up in The Coffee House - online workshops and masterclasses
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Transform your Writing with Expert Mentoring!
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Wild Notes

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Setting our Silver Birch and Rowan Trees Free
Wild Notes #10 A monthly dispatch from our nature recovery project
Hedging Our Bets: How we Freed the Trees
Wild Notes #9 Boiling ants, humbug snails and a tangle of roses
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I Went to Mow My Meadow
Wild Notes #8 A hay-making ritual, a Gothic melodrama, a zooming deer and a baby bank vole
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We All Love Bird Song but it’s just Birds Screaming for Sex
Wild Notes #7 Dawn Chorus at Wild Haweswater
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Searching for Snoozing Dormice Could Save the Species
Wilderness Notes #6 If you can find them, that is
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How to Tell a Story

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Here's How to Tell a Story: Seven Steps from Start to Finish
Watch now | Begin here...and read my short thriller, 'Meat'
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Editing: How to See Your Work as a Reader Will
The Process #7 Why all writing is rewriting and how to do it
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Understanding Point of View (POV) in Fiction and How to Choose the Right One for You
The Process #6 Confused about first person singular present tense vs omniscient third person past? Here's a quick guide to POV
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How To Create A Sense Of Place - Use Psychedelics
The Process #5 How the science behind psychedelics can deepen the sense of location in fiction
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An Effective Way To Create Authentic, Memorable And Compelling Characters
The Process #4 MEAT
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The Craft Review

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The Fury by Alex Michaelides and some thoughts on time
The Craft Review #6 "I warned you at the start, that's not the way this is going to go”
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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins and an interview with Paula about her inspiration
The Craft Review #5 "You’d see the world burn if only it meant they would be happy."
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All Her Secrets by Jane Shemilt and how to create suspense
The Craft Review #4 How to keep readers reading by heightening tension
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The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Joseph Paterson and some thoughts on creating historical drama
The Craft Review #3 "This is the tale of a lucky African orphan, who despite being born in abject slavery, rose to become a leading light of the early…
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The Fall by Gilly Macmillan and some thoughts about escalating tension
The Craft Review #2 A warming chiller for a wintery day...
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