Dickimaw Books Blog
Category: Creative Writing
The art of writing fiction, inspiration and themes.
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When I was a child, my family used to go out for walks at the weekend, usually after Sunday lunch. Seaford Head, Hope Gap, the Cuckmere, Friston Forest and on the other side towards Newhaven, the Tide Mills."
This is the story of how I came to write the book given that my primary emphasis has been on writing text books and adult crime/thriller/speculative fiction rather than children’s books. 2019-10-10 📂 Children’s Illustrated Fiction Creative Writing 🔖 Re-published Story creation The Foolish Hedgehog
Writing a first draft is hard.
Novel beginnings are hard to write.
Where do you get your imagination from?
What’s the significance of an open window? 2019-10-25 📂 Creative Writing 🔖 Conservation of Detail Re-published Story creation The Private Enemy
The story behind the illustrated children’s book “Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!” 2019-10-25 📂 Children’s Illustrated Fiction Creative Writing 🔖 Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back! Re-published Story creation
The Private Enemy is a crime fiction novel set in the county of Norfolk in East Anglia. 2019-10-29 📂 Creative Writing Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction Language Norfolk 🔖 Dialect Re-published Story creation The Private Enemy
The Fourth Protectorate is an alternative history novel where the principle point of departure is the Brighton bomb in 1984.
2019-10-30 📂 Creative Writing Speculative Fiction 🔖 Alternative History Re-published Story creation The Fourth Protectorate
Tales for Our Times is an anthology of forty stories featuring loss and hope, dreams of love and belonging, biography and science fiction and adventure. Written by Norfolk-based writing group Ex-Cathedra and published by Smokehouse Press, the book will be launched on World Homeless Day 10th October 2024 midday at the Norwich and Norfolk Millennium Library. All profits from the sale of this book will be used to help raise funds to support Norwich-based St Martins Housing Trust in their work to help the homeless into independent living.
The book launch for the anthology Tales for Our Times, written by Norfolk writing group Ex-Cathedra and published by Smokehouse Press, took place in the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library at noon on World Homeless Day (10th October 2024). All profits from the sale of this book will be used to help raise funds to support Norwich-based St Martins Housing Trust in their work to help the homeless into independent living. The book launch included a talk from Dr Jan Sheldon, SEO of St Martins, two readings by authors of the book, and a presentation to the library.Search Blog
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- The crime fiction category covers the crime novels The Private Enemy and The Fourth Protectorate and also the crime short stories I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing and I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing.
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- The speculative fiction category includes the novel The Private Enemy (set in the future), the alternative history novel The Fourth Protectorate, and the fantasy novel Muirgealia.
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- Sub-genre of speculative fiction, alternative history is “what if?” fiction.
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- A part of the creative writing process, conservation of detail essentially means that only significant information should be added to a work of fiction.
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- A Norfolk-based writing group.
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- A pochette (pocket violin) with a hippo headpiece.
- I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing
- A crime fiction short story (available as an ebook) set in the late 1920s on the RMS Aquitania. See the story’s main page for further details.
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- Muirgealia
- A fantasy novel. See the book’s main page for further details.
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- Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!
- Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
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- Smile for the Camera
- A cybercrime short story about CCTV operator monitoring a store’s self-service tills who sees too much information.
- Story creation
- The process of creating stories.
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- The Briefcase
- A crime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
- The Foolish Hedgehog
- Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
- The Fourth Protectorate
- Alternative history novel set in 1980s/90s London. See the book’s main page for further details.
- The Private Enemy
- A crime/speculative fiction novel set in a future Norfolk run by gangsters. See the book’s main page for further details.
- Unsocial Media
- A cybercrime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
- World Book Day
- World Book Day (UK and Ireland) is an annual charity event held in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on the first Thursday in March. It’s a local version of the global UNESCO World Book Day.
- World Homeless Day
- World Homeless Day is marked every year on 10 October to draw attention to the needs of people experiencing homelessness.