![]() ![]() Martyn Pig was shortlisted for a 2002 Carnegie Medal and won the 2003 Branford Boase Award, as well as setting the tone for the dark and unsettling subject matter preferred by Kevin in his novels. He had a varied working life, with jobs in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before – happily – giving it all up when he secured his first book deal for Martyn Pig, a black comedy about a 15-year-old who decides not to tell the authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally. ![]() Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and studied in Birmingham and London. As Martin Amis once said, “The unconscious does it all.” About Kevin Brooks More often than not, your unconscious will then solve the problem for you. If you get stuck on something (a plot problem, say, or how to write a particularly tricky sentence) get up from your desk, or wherever you’re writing, and go and do something else for a while, preferably something relatively mindless – go for a walk, take a bath, make a sandwich. ![]() Don’t follow trends, don’t write for others, don’t try to write like anyone else.ģ. All you have to do is work out which method works best for you.Ģ. Some authors like to plan everything out before they start, others (like me) sketch out a rough framework of the story first, and some don’t plan at all, they just start writing. There’s no right or wrong way to write a story. Children’s author Kevin Brooks gives us his top three writing tips, to help emerging writers taking part in NaNoWriMo this year. ![]()
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