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Now before you sneeze coffee through your ears, this isn’t what you think.

It’s about the idea put forward in a recent interview by a male author (not the lady on the front of this cover) that only serious issues are worth bothering writing about; the idea that anything which might appear ‘small beer’ simply isn’t worth entertaining – or what he went on to suggest, ‘Isn’t worth wasting three years of my life on’.

This won’t apply to everyone, I suggest, because we all have different idea of what is or is not small beer.

And long may that continue. Diversity in reading is essential, as it should be in writing, and it would be lamentable if any new writer was put off doing what they wanted to do merely because someone more experienced suggested it wasn’t worthwhile.

Which is the whole idea behind this column. Beginners, get your mojo, whatever it is!

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