My town is nowhere you have been, but you know its ilk. A roundabout off a national road, an industrial estate, a five-screen Cineplex, a century of pubs packed inside the square mile of the town’s limits.

It’s a good idea to come into the club with a list of ideas, topics, and themes you want to write about. Since we’re focusing closely on the mechanics of writing, we won’t be explicitly dealing with how to come up with ideas or how to conduct research.