Category Archives: On writing

Posts about the work of writing

Stars In My Eyes: Words & Women in Norwich

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sarah Tanburn

Me:  writer new to Norwich, looking for congenial groups and opportunities to learn.Words and Women Norwich: supports and promotes women writers living and working in the East of England today.  How excellent is that?  I joined up and reserved Sunday … Continue reading →

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Why are endings often so bad?

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Sarah Tanburn

Some narratives end well, others not so.  By well, I don’t mean happily, but in an interesting, provoking fashion.  As audience (whether for film or book) I don’t want a simplistic tying up of loose ends, or the placebo of … Continue reading →

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Worldbuilding and peak wood

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Sarah Tanburn

Malta has the oldest stone buildings in the world.  Their oldest temples are a millennium older than the Great Pyramid, three millennia before the Acropolis more than five thousand years old than St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Perhaps because of … Continue reading →

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Switzerland: winning short story online.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Sarah Tanburn

My short story Switzerland won that fantastic cup that’s gracing my living room.  The great folk behind National Short Story Week have put it online here.   The whole week, which happens in November, is a great concept, which helps … Continue reading →

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Seven lines for seven writers

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Sarah Tanburn

I have been passed my Lucky 7 by the lovely Laura Wilkinson, a writer chum I interviewed on this site when her novel Bloodmining came out.. Lucky 7 is just a bit of ‘blog fun’ for authors. I’m new to … Continue reading →

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Winning for ‘Switzerland’

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Sarah Tanburn

In case you missed it on FB and Twitter, on Saturday, at Get Writing 2012, run by the estimable Verulam Writers Circle, I won their short story cup.  And here it is, in all its shiny glory. I am so … Continue reading →

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The NYE Moment

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Sarah Tanburn

We will be back in the Mediterranean soon with blue skies and warm breezes, shedding the grey-induced pallor of 50 degrees North.    More immediately, we’re going for a lovely murder mystery dinner tonight and I don’t expect to grind … Continue reading →

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Worship and worldbuilding

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Sarah Tanburn

There is a hadith, a moslem teaching, that all the world is a mosque, a place of worship.  I grew up in a family which preached the belief that god is found wherever two or three come together to worship.  … Continue reading →

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Back in the world

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Sarah Tanburn

It’s been a while!  Two huge contracts, but one is now finished and handed over, so at last I can stop working at least 6 days a week, and return to blogging. I have been writing.  In the last four … Continue reading →

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Small steps but mighty ones

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Sarah Tanburn

I am chuffed to say my short story The Ocean is my Lover has been accepted by Ether books and will be available to download soon.  Don’t worry – I will remind you when the time comes! A river of … Continue reading →

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