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Dirty White Candy / Nail Your Novel

DirtyWhiteCandy is a website of fiction-writing tutorials and creative sparks covering topics such as what Mamma Mia tells you about plotting, where celebrated Hollywood scriptwriter William Goldman went wrong, the duff ending for Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca and how to make metaphors work. By London-based novelist Roz Morris, who writes in a variety of genres and critiques manuscripts for a major literary consultancy. She is also the author of Nail Your Novel - Why Writers Abandon Books and How You Can Draft, Fix and Finish with Confidence

Why Dirty White Candy? Sounds very modern and a bit risque. In fact it's one of the first products sold by Fortnum & Mason in the eighteenth century. Samuel Johnson may well have kept an emergency stash of DWC. I used it for my website because it reminds me that people of all eras and backgrounds have surprising depths and funky tastes, a streak of unexpected adventure below the surface. And because inspiration comes from the most unexpected places.