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sarah bradley Contemporary fiction, opinion, and writer on women's mental health

sarah bradley
sarah bradley
Member since: Jun, 2009
Last login: 03/18/2010
Last update : 03/18/2010
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  • Bradley lives in West Yorkshire. She writes contemporary fiction and enjoys gardening, watching Woody Allen movies, and playing with the cat. 

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  • Writer's inspiration playlists

    March 18, 2010

    • You know how sometimes your character just won't come alive? When they're hiding cheekily behind gauze-coloured mist, throwin' shapes that somehow look indistinct? You can't make those two central protagonists fall in love like you need them to; you can't convincingly render up the heartbreak, the regret, the emotional reaction to major life events like having a baby, moving house, or getting ...
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  • Writing Space

    March 8, 2010

    • Gee, it's been a while since I've been on here! My apologetic explanation can only be, "I've been busy writing my novel, Miss." 236 days into the Big Project and I have, at last, reached my favourite part of the process: rewriting and editing. Correcting a sloppy metaphor here and there, adding extra scenes to make it hang together better, restructuring sentences so the pacing ...
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  • Marry Him! The case of the disgruntled ex-boyfriend

    February 10, 2010

    • Dear Ex-Boyfriend,Here's hoping you have the time to read this letter, because I really want chance to make things right with you. I realise it's been a while since we last spoke. Is it ten years now, or eleven? Funny how the time flies! Well, you might have heard on the grapevine that I'm still unmarried, and yes, still childless. Those are facts I didn't really notice myself until the other ...
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  • Favourite Lyricists #2: Craig Finn, The Hold Steady

    February 4, 2010

    • Last month I wrote about one of my all-time favourite lyricists, Elvis Costello, and this month I want to tell you all about one of my newer favourites, Craig Finn from The Hold Steady. For those of you who don't know, The Hold Steady are a Americana-flavoured ROCK band from the American Midwest. Although often compared with Bruce Springsteen, they are so much more than your average all-American ...
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  • I Don't Hate You, It's Just That I'm Writing A Novel

    January 24, 2010

    • Writers notoriously have a reputation for eccentricity and bizarre, anti-social behaviour. The late Harold Pinter was notoriously bad-tempered, and how many of us, whose hours are spent in quiet darkened rooms inventing imaginary people, imaginary places, can honestly say we feel completely comfortable when required to socialise with actual people? When I'm dragged out, against my will, of a ...
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Comments I've Written

  • Not much - just the first

    Not much - just the first chapter. It's even better than I remembered it first time around!

  • Only fools and sweethearts

    You can do it! Keep going! You have only a few more tired little steps to make....

  • Oh, thanks Sue! It

    Oh, thanks Sue! It threatened to be the worst Christmas ever, but ended up being one of the best! The game of musical chairs was the funniest things I've watched ever. You couldn't make it up...

  • Thanks Mary, thanks Nancy!

    I've become very disciplined in my writing lately! It helps that I get home from work before 5 most days, so have a sizeable chunk of evening in which to write. And re: the stats....

  • I don't know Ryoma, I think

    I don't know Ryoma, I think I'm just one of those pathologically 'busy' people. There's nothing I hate more than feeling that I've wasted the day!

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