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    STAR LETTER

    Mar 04, 2021 7 minutes

    Desk space

    For the first time since March last year I have read my February edition of Writing Magazine. All the other previous copies sit patiently waiting on my desk that I haven’t sat at for ten months. I am a nurse. Ever since March I have worked well over my usual part-time hours in the complete hell that is Covid.

    I am inspired to write today as whilst standing in line for my vaccine I allowed myself the luxury to read. Helen Corner-Bryant’s article (Ask a literary consultant, WM Feb) touched a nerve and today I emailed her a synopsis for my book Tidesreach. In my humble opinion pure lockdownstalgia, and corny as it sounds it felt like she was talking directly to me.

    Pre-Covid I was on the final stages of editing a story of murder and intrigue but haven’t had the time or emotional energy to look at it. Instead I am drawn back to the characters I loved creating, a place so peaceful and special in my heart. To push the horrors of work away

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