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Fiona Mitchell is an award-winning writer and has worked as a journalist for many years. She is the author of two novels, both published by Hodder & Stoughton - the newly published The Swap as well as her debut The Maid's Room which she wrote after living in Singapore for three years. She now lives in London with her husband and daughter. ...more

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The Maid's Room

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How to Write a First Draft

The last time I wrote a novel (my third), I thought it’d be a good idea to record how I wrote the first draft. Except that I didn’t end up creating that crib sheet then. So now, as I’m about to start writing my fourth novel, here it comes, that crib sheet:

The Idea

Ideas, they’re tricky little blighters, aren’t they? I mean how do you know whether you’re going to be able to stick with that idea

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