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Animals Are More Like People Than We Are
While Thomas was moping in a wine bar, feeling sorry that no one gave a toss about his books, someone else felt sorry for him also, and...

Thomas Corfield


Hyper-characterisation
One of the things that stands out about Thomas’ writing, besides it being dreadful, is appalling characterisation. In an interview with...

Thomas Corfield


Write Quietly And Carry A Large Pen
Occasionally, Thomas stumbles across a writer—often in a library—keen to advertise how brilliant their writing is, by sighing, weeping,...

Thomas Corfield


The New Fiction: Dullism
Thomas was advised by a fellow writer (one who could write, as opposed to the “vague arrangement of loosely related words” she described...

Thomas Corfield


Third Person Avoids Embarrassment
After an argument, Thomas was advised not to write his blog in the third person because it implied that he wasn’t responsible for it. He...

Thomas Corfield


Why Edit Fiction? I Mean, It's Fiction.
Recently, Thomas attended a writers’ conference in Newcastle where he gave a presentation entitled “Is editing really necessary?”...

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What Audience?
A good excuse for Thomas having no idea who his audience might be, is the notion that the genre of the Dooven books is such a convoluted...

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Is Bad Writing Always Bad Writing?
One of the advantages about writing novels badly is that there’s the likelihood of improving over time. But what if one doesn’t want to...

Thomas Corfield
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