Every now and then I’m jolted into action and realise that if I want to call myself a writer, I should do more than do laundry, cook dinner, wash the kitchen surfaces, iron pillowcases and rewax the floors. What follows are excerpts from my brain.
Alcohol and me: An uneasy mix
By Mo Fanning
/ January 4, 2021
It’s tough not drinking in a society where alcohol rules. Especially during lockdown. Every Friday Zoom meeting ends with someone saying how much they can’t wait to pour a gin and switch off.
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Lockdown: The year of doing nothing
By Mo Fanning
/ January 1, 2021
I’ve lived through panic buying loo roll, tinned tomatoes and dried pasta, cut my own hair badly and refused to rattle saucepans as the NHS re-appropriated my rainbow.
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2020: That was the year that was
By Mo Fanning
/ December 31, 2020
Mo Fanning looks back at 2020 - a year of reading, writing and anything but the bloody pandemic. Take a moment to join him.
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Christmas – Things can only get better … surely?
By Mo Fanning
/ December 24, 2020
Remember 2019? The worst year ever. Putting politics to one side, it was one of those years that took away too many beloved famous faces. On 31 December 2019, many breathed a sigh of relief and looked forward to something better.
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Write what you know … and other myths exploded
By Mo Fanning
/ December 14, 2020
I spent my Manchester years stumbling from one bar and bed to another. If I'd written only of familiar things, my debut novel would have told a very different story.
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Six ways for a writer to handle the Covid pandemic
By Mo Fanning
/ October 26, 2020
I can’t be the only writer unsure how (or if) to deal with an unpredictable global pandemic. COVID-19 didn’t exist when I started work on my upcoming novel - and given a whole chunk of the action hangs off events at a seaside cafe, I could have done without it hitting.
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Writer’s block – yet another writer with yet another tip
By Mo Fanning
/ July 29, 2020
Writer's block is painful. Everyone gets a form of it at some point, and most writers have ways of dealing with it. A frequent fix is to 'just write anything' until the feeling of being blocked passes.
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TEASER: Rebuilding Alexandra Small
By Mo Fanning
/ June 12, 2020
With (hopefully final) edits well underway on what will become my next romantic comedy novel - Rebuilding Alexandra Small -...
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Grief: A visit to the museum
By Mo Fanning
/ June 2, 2020
My mother died in February. At the time, the virus that now traps us in our homes was little more...
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How’s your lockdown going?
By Mo Fanning
/ May 21, 2020
How’s your lockdown going? I’m borderline depressed. So I don’t plan on ending my lockdown life ... or doing anything...
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