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• Carl MacDougall

  Carl MacDougall wrote and presented Writing Scotland. His work includes prize-winning novels Stone Over Water, The Lights Below and The Casanova Papers, plus his acclaimed collection of short stories Elvis Is Dead.听
  
  Carl was born in Glasgow but spent his childhood in Perthshire and Argyll, where he still has strong family connections.
  
  Read 聽or explore the themes of 'Writing Scotland', starting with聽.

• Tips for Writers

  With typical economy, offers the following advice to budding writers:

  
  

  1. Read good poetry, the best, modern or ancient.

  2. Keep your imagination sinewy by writing about things outside your own experience.

  3. Don't wait for the divine moment. Lay the table, write a lot.

  4. Work hard on a poem for a short period, but not for ever.

  5. Take rejection slips as a spur, not a death sentence.

  
  

  Whether you're a seasoned veteran or an aspiring young writer, it's easy to recognise the wisdom of words as well chosen as those five lines from Edwin.听

  
  

  Explore for more advice from writers聽, Anne Donovan, Matthew Fitt and Kevin MacNeill.听

• Website credits

  The Writing Scotland website was co-produced between 大象传媒 Scotland and Creative Context.
  
  The copy in the Writers section of this site was written by聽Laura Carol Blount,聽Rhona Brown,聽Helen Lloyd,聽Lyndsay Lunan,聽Kirsty MacDonald,聽Susan Neil,聽Niall O'Gallagher聽(all from Glasgow University's Scottish Literature department), and by Moira Burgess, a freelance writer based in Glasgow.