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Pressing concerns

I was lucky enough to participate in a virtual seminar at this year’s London Book Fair, titled Playing with Prose: Form, Character, Setting. My co-panellist was award-winning writer, Michael Arditti, who wears various hats as a playwright, journalist, and theatre critic. The seminar was hosted by TV and radio broadcaster Dan Simpson, who runs the Writer’s Routine podcast.

Michael revealed that he writes instinctively, without a

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