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Author · Storyteller
Oscar Wood
@oscarwood
Writer interested in young adult, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Oscar Wood writes mainly in young adult and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Oscar Wood
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Hours
Seventeen-year-old Rowan Finch spends most evenings in the back room of his aunt’s late-opening stationery shop, where he edits homework, listens to other people’s problems and tries not to think about his own. When a local housing redevelopment threatens the row of small businesses that keep his world intact, Rowan starts recording the ordinary details of the street before they disappear, only to realise the story he is collecting is partly his own.
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Draft progress
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