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Choices

Usually when I plot a story I try to reduce every decision to an either/or. If you’re writing a story or working out what should happen next in a story-plan and you think you’re stuck, you can always...

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The View From Inside

I’m still inside a monster. The internet connection in here is pretty unreliable, so I hope this works…

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Fudge! Chocolate! Libraries!

Well, the tennis maestro was true to his word and this morning I received a box full of fudge and chocolate in the post – a reward for picking a more successful fantasy tennis team than him. Is it...

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Holiday Time

I was wondering whether any of you write while you’re on holiday. I don’t just mean my fellow cave-dwellers, but blog readers too. If you’re into writing and coming up with stories, do you take a...

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My Own Contribution to Roald Dahl Day Celebrations

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Conflict, Structure, Character, Setting – In That Order

I was at Epsom College today, allowed out of the cave for my final school event of 2009. While being dragged back to the cave by my ankles by the monster I know simply as ‘Miss Angelina’, I was mulling...

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Jimmy Coates Invades Your Classroom

What are all these tiny people doing running about the streets in matching uniforms? What’s that? Schools? Term time? How very confusing for all of us. Well, if it’s term time again I suppose that...

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Fans Make Great Movies

The talent of my fans is inspiring. This just turned up on youtube and I love it. It really captures the spirit of my books.

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Words about death, punctuation, characters and problems

[The excellent blog at www.yacontemporary.com allowed me to do a guest post a few weeks ago. This is an updated/amended/edited version of my piece for them.] The new Jimmy Coates book (Jimmy Coates:...

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Jimmy Coates: Blackout – exclusive video

It’s finally here. The best book I’ve written (I’m sure of it) and certainly the one that’s taken longest to get out there into readers’ hands. I’m incredibly excited (and a little nervous) that the...

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