This is going to be a great night with a wonderful range of readings from a talented bunch of writers. It's a cool room and there will be wine and beer. Why would you want to be anywhere else? x.com/novelstudio201…

Thank you for coming @hannahknowl3s! x.com/hannahknowl3s/…

Can't wait to read this Fanny Blake ! x.com/fannyblake1/st…

Huge thanks to ⁦Tessa Hilton⁩ to whom my new book is dedicated for a fancy pre-pub tea

We talk a lot about what it takes to be a successful writer but I think one factor not mentioned enough is the ability to read your own words over and over and over and over again without ripping out your eyeballs.

Look at this! Ten opportunities for disadvantaged writers. Get in quick! x.com/BathNovelAward…

'A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.' E.B. White. Who often wrote in his living room, 'despite the carnival that is going on all around me.'

I've decided being a writer is 10% talent, 20% caffeine and 70% carrying on writing in the face of rejection. We're all completely insane.

I thought you might need this today. Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas, 1964.

Ten years ago I tweeted this. 9 years ago that idea had become Before I Go to Sleep, and 7 years ago that book was a number one bestseller. You never know what the tiniest spark of inspiration might one day become. #writingtip

For film producers and #investors interested in taking a deeper dive into the factors that impact #BoxOffice success, I'm running this session at Raindance Film Festival in a couple of weeks. raindance.org/courses/moneyb…

Here is some free writing advice: Stop Not Writing. You can turn off the tv for one hour. (The breaking news is that no one knows anything yet.) And in that hour, you can get 45 minutes of bad writing done, and this will change your whole day. Just one bad sentence after another.

Great piece about the reality of panic attacks by @bellamackie

The Windermere Children starts in a minute on BBC Two. Watch it. Right to the end bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Excellent piece by international school teacher Maria Shooter about how to bring the best out in your children: telegraph.co.uk/family/parenti…