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Author: Russell Jones

Writer and editor Russell Jones is a guest blogger for The Lighthouse. He has published five books, edited three anthologies and edits a sci-fi magazine. He is the UK Pet Poet Laureate.

Five things I wish I’d known before I became a writer…

Sure, we all start out emulating our heroes, but the world already has Harry Potter, The Cat in the Hat and Pooh – oh, how I love him – so we don’t need (let’s face it, probably inferior) replicas. Why try to write something you don’t REALLY want to write?

Posted on July 18, 2019July 31, 2019 by Russell Jones

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