Living the Writer's Life ; Novelist Jane Elmor Explains How Moving Back to the West Country Proved a Crucial Turning Point for Her

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I 'd always wanted to write, but never seemed to get round to it - it seems to be a common problem that writing always ends up at the bottom of your Things To Do list, even when it's the thing you most want to do. Waiting for the "perfect time", when everything else in life miraculously clears to leave an uninterrupted novel-writing space, just doesn't work.

Having spent my youth in London, playing in bands and selling vintage clothes, then going on to work in the film industry and write music for TV, I got to a stage when I had a 'now or never' moment, and decided to take a risky plunge. I enrolled on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, chucked in the life I was living and moved back to the West Country.

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Living the Writer's Life ; Novelist Jane Elmor Explains How Moving Back to the West Country Proved a Crucial Turning Point for Her

I'd lived in Taunton as a teenager, and for the novel I started on the MA, I drew on my experiences as a youth in the Eighties. The novel isn't autobiographical, but I had a lot of fun recalling what it ...

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