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Eleven years of taking minutes taught me more about plot than any novel did. Here is how I read an archive now, and what I am looking for.

I have written five books and got the plot right in the first draft exactly zero times. An honest account of what each pass is actually for.

Eight weeks of walking the same two miles of embankment, and what changed. Mostly a piece about noticing, and a little about the next book.

Twenty-odd books over four years, only three of them novels. The reading list behind a book about a sea wall.

Novels are bad at jobs. A case for research first, metaphor a long way second, and for letting the work be boring where it is boring.

Who decides where you go, who pays, why the good bookshop three miles away is not on it, and what an author can and cannot change.

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