Illustration for my article, Fact of Fiction?

When you've been engrossed in writing a story, it's good to pause and draw back only to return later with a fresh perspective. Having completed a 'double' edit of Colourful People, the fourth book in the Boy & Girl saga, it was time to return to The Boy in the Book an extract of which is included in the following article.

• Fact or fiction? - Fact is not always so easily distinguishable from fiction as this extract from The Boy in the Book shows.

I have written three other articles since my last newsletter:

• When is a girl not a girl - the damage cause by rigid belief that the division between boy & girl is immutable. 
• Stories for the future - inspiring individual narratives of ways forward as a means to stave off anxiety in an uncertain world. 
• A possible framework for writing that sparks future narratives - hints based on my own experience of writing.

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All the best. Alan.

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Alan McCluskey,  Secret Paths Editions, author.secret-paths.com