Dr Emma Darwin

Now tweeting only as @emma_darwin. Please follow @emma_darwin if you'd like to hear from me.

[Holland House Books @HhouseBooks]

This is Not a Book About Charles @emma_darwin #NotAboutDarwin
https://t.co/3pzvOvq3Vs

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

Thrilled by @MailOnline review #NotAboutDarwin :"witty...a fascinating journey...a masterclass in how writers have to learn to fail & fail again before they have a hope of producing something like this book" https://t.co/4yWLbg2QK3 @HhouseBooks @HardmanSwainson @publicityhannah

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

"This refreshingly frank, witty, eloquent memoir-cum-biography-cum-rumination..." Hyperventilating to hear from @publicityhannah that This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin is @SagaUK Mag's #NonFiction Book of the Month @HhouseBooks @HardmanSwainson https://t.co/4yWLbfLfSv

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

New on the Itch: "As a mentor & teacher & writer & reader, there's something I want to say to you: you do not have to apologise for the writing you choose to write." https://t.co/3QOua5HexC #WritingTips #WritingTip #writerslife #amwriting #poetry #Fiction

[Royal Literary Fund @royallitfund]

' #History was no longer about the exciting stories of actual people exploring & fighting, & arguing about how Good Queen Bess was also Bad. It was trying to be a science' Novelist @emma_darwin writes a letter to her younger self https://t.co/P743xAl10L #podcasts #HistFic

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

Oh, and did I mention cake?

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

This is going to be SO useful - I find writing conflict & violence very challenging, and am really looking forward to being on stage, picking @WilliamRyan_'s brains about how to do it better, on my own behalf as well as the audience's and (at one remove) my students'

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

New on This Itch of Writing: No.5 in the Being Published series explores publicity. https://t.co/wPenP4nuzz #writerslife #writerslifechat #published #selfpublish #selfpublishing #selfpub

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

Have been reminded of an earlier @rlfwriters mini-podcast about how I write: i.e. process. Perhaps of interest to those on my @BronteParsonage @PondenHall workshop, & graduates, graduands & future #SelfEditing course writers w @DebiAlper https://t.co/PjyCzvnHTt

[Royal Literary Fund @royallitfund]

‘”Murder your darlings” doesn’t come from a Calvinist idea that anything that gives pleasure must be sinful.’ Novelist & writing mentor @emma_darwin on the best writing advice she ever received #writingtips #writingtip #fiction #nonfiction https://t.co/mUJpYxZ2l4

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

New on the Itch: All the posts I mentioned @BronteParsonage Festival of Women's Writing workshops @PondenHall. We covered #SelfEditing in Make Your Story Shine, & in Writing #HistoricalFiction we covered... you can guess. #writingtips #histfic #writingtip https://t.co/JuyINlWva1

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

"No word-count bootcamp or productivity push." Why I'm joining the #100daysofwriting thanks to @jennashworth. New on This Itch of Writing, with a hat-tip to @beprolifiko https://t.co/8SloACIMLM

[Dr Emma Darwin @itchofwriting]

Oooh, places still available on the next Self-Editing Your Novel course, which @DebiAlper & I run over @JerichoWriters. Chances are they'll be snapped up by the weekend thanks to #FoW18, so why not get in first? #writingtips https://t.co/C4kHlZMfBO.

[Julie Cordiner @Julie_Cordiner]

@DebiAlper @emma_darwin @JerichoWriters Just do it - it will move your writing on more than any other course in the history of the universe (and it doesn’t include teaching hyperbole - it really will make a massive difference).

[Dr Emma Darwin @itchofwriting]

Oh, I know I've mentioned this course to various writers I've been working with - and I may have said "I'm not sure if it's sold out" - but clearly there is still space. Though I don't expect there will be for long...

[Debi Alper @DebiAlper]

Just heard spaces still available for the 6-week online Self-Edit Your Novel course I run with @emma_darwin for @JerichoWriters. Starts 18/9. People going to #FoW18 - this might be your next step. https://t.co/y6MRNAEI5E

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

New on the Itch, No 4 in the Being Published series: Covers. With hat-tips to @ItDaFiveOh, @HhouseBooks @JoannaSwainson @AdamRutherford @HardmanSwainson https://t.co/zMlXRCQase

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

Cheering thing for a wet Monday, just as you're resigned to a year of your life passing before your eyes (a.k.a doing the 17-18 tax return.) Glorious ARCs of This is Not a Book! @HhouseBooks @HardmanSwainson @JoannaSwainson More here #NotAboutDarwin: https://t.co/oGve7Uvido

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

The moment you get the cover for your next book is incredibly exciting/nerve-racking, because covers matter so much. Imagine my thrilledness to set eyes on this beauty, thanks to designer Liam Relph & @HhouseBooks More about the book here: https://t.co/oGve7UdHlQ

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

"Everyone says “research till your eyes bleed” but when I Google, all I can find is the information I know already. Where do you start looking for the real stuff?" I've got my Agony Aunt hat on @HistoriaHWA #HistoricalFiction #writingtips https://t.co/SuUxhUTqtk

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

So the lovely @alidawintern and @robertscanlon asked me to join them at their round table, to talk about historical fiction: #histfic #amwriting #writingtips #HistoricalFiction https://t.co/Bb20QtzwCC

[Emma Darwin @emma_darwin]

IYM: new on This Itch of Writing: Being Published Part 3: Permissions, and why even if you're nowhere near being published, they're worth thinking about #publishing #selfpublishing #writerslife #writingtips https://t.co/xIdpB38fSV