Zoe Deleuil

writing tips

  • 5 ideas to help you finish a piece of writing

    While reading the Gillian Mear’s biography a few months back I discovered that when The Mint Lawn was reissued she had the opportunity to make a few changes.  Yet she more or less left it how it was. Perhaps she simply didn’t have it in her to go back to that book. It was so

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  • Why the Barbican makes a compelling setting for a novel

    When I started writing my psychological suspense novel, The Night Village, about a new mother and her strange houseguest, I pictured the story unfolding in my old flat in Hackney. And then, in the same way a dream will suddenly shift location, my characters were all somehow living at the Barbican Estate in central London.

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  • Tara June Winch in Berlin

    Recently I listened to author Tara June Winch talk about her Miles Franklin Award winning novel, The Yield. Here are some notes from the evening.

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  • Writing workshop: using place names in your writing

    When writing prose, it’s easy to get stuck on the mechanics of the story – who is speaking? Was the baby asleep in the last scene? Could it really be dusk already? …. and the writing itself can sometimes feel secondary, just a means of getting your characters from A to B. So turning up

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