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Complete writers block

  • 09-09-2008 1:39pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭


    I know exactly what I want to write about, Manchester in the Thatcher years. But I just have no idea about research and structure. Anyone give me any tips?


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Are you planning on making it a fictional work set in that context, or an historical document on the period?

    In either case, if it were me, I'd probably start researching any library archives in Manchester from the time. Maybe look for back copies of the MEN or other publications. For opinion and anecdotes you might be able to organise interviews with local residents, or even former public servants.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    An Fhile wrote: »
    Are you planning on making it a fictional work set in that context, or an historical document on the period?

    In either case, if it were me, I'd probably start researching any library archives in Manchester from the time. Maybe look for back copies of the MEN or other publications. For opinion and anecdotes you might be able to organise interviews with local residents, or even former public servants.

    Thanks. I'm planning on making it a fictional work.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 11 leon35


    Absorb yourself in the era for about six months. Read everything you can try and make contact via social networking sites and converse with people in that locale who would have memories of Thatcherite years over there. Then plot your book and don't rush this process as i believe it will only be a joy then when you actually begin the process of writing a great book. Truman Capote often spent his days in bed writing and sometimes utalising the whole day in a battle with himself over a few words.


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