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Kristie
@Kristie

#Photographer // #Writer // Drystone Waller // #Scotland

Author of 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' out 7th August 2025

#Neurodivergent // #Covidisnotover // Pronouns She/Her

(Banner image is five images of the cover of my book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' which features five stones in green, yellow, purple, grey and blue on a beige background)

Profile picture is of a woman with short brown hair, wearing ablue denim jumpsuit with a black and silver belt with green spring fields behind her

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My first book, The Dream Pyjamas, was a huge hit at 44 Grieve Avenue, though sadly overlooked by every major award. My second, 36 years later, has had slightly better luck...Drystone - A Life Rebuilt has been shortlisted for the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2026. The biggest literary prize in Scotland.

I think about where I've come from, and I genuinely cannot believe I'm here.

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Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.

Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.

This essay argues for something else.

Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory

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