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In October 2016, Leicestershire author Steve Bowkett delivered a Help For Writers workshop as part of the Everybody’s Reading festival. Steve gave lots of useful writing […]
Edward de Bono of ‘lateral thinking’ fame suggested that introducing randomness and chance into the creative process produced better ideas than relying on what he called […]
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