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Linda Acaster

WRITER, TUTOR, COACH

New Novel out now:

TORC OF MOONLIGHT

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Linda Acaster offers professional one-to-one coaching for beginner and intermediate writers of fiction for adults.

By casting a critical eye over work-in-progress, problem areas can be highlighted and suggested remedies offered via an explanatory report and annotations made direct to the text. Incisive comment is the aim, not vague generalisation.

“I believe that fiction should act as a means of emotional communication, not merely a comfortable dry-side window on whatever world is being offered on the page. If the reader is not moved the line of communication has failed. My emphasis, therefore, is weighted towards the craft of transferring thoughts and feelings, as near as possible intact, from the writer’s to the reader’s mind.”

Empathy, Show & Tell, Tone & Atmosphere, Pacing, Viewpoint and Tense are some of the separate threads with which she urges a writer to work. Every writer is an individual, and she believes that every story by that writer should be, too.

Linda Acaster has tutored for the Arvon Foundation and for a UK distance learning college, and has led workshops and spoken at writers’ conferences across the north of England. She spent six years on the reading panel for the New Writers’ Scheme administered by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and two years as the co-ordinator of its Northern Chapter. She was prominent in setting up the East Riding of Yorkshire Novelsearch, offering writers advice on bringing their work to publishable standard. She is a member of the Society of Authors.

Her published work includes over seventy short stories in genres as diverse as women’s, horror, crime, fantasy and SF, published in magazines in the UK, US and Europe, three historical novels, travel features and opinion pieces in the UK press, and an abundance of articles on the techniques of writing fiction, some of which appear on this site. If you are interested in receiving feedback on work-in-progress, send an enquiry email with details and length. Fees start at £30 for a detailed critique and a fast turnaround.