The difference between fiction and non fiction
Over on The View Outside Vikki’s written about a recent research session at the Faber Academy where novelist and Guardian writer Susie Steiner gave a pretty good definition of the … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week TURNING FACT INTO FICTION
Anyone who survives beyond the age of twelve has enough fictional material for the rest of her life. Flannery O’Connor Take an event from your own or a family member’s … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) STEPHEN COVEY
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing Stephen Covey
READ LIKE A WRITER New Brighton Book Group Specifically for Writers
A former student has been in touch to say that she is starting a new book group open to writers, published, unpublished, absolute beginners and those with considerable experience. This … Continue reading
Originally posted on Simone Davy:
Made good use of Bridget Whelan article Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid to write a new story called Waiting for You. Bridget’s article can be found…
Written a play? Find out how to get it staged
Just heard from Spread the Word, the London based literary organisation, that they are launching a programme of topical debates next month. Each season a panel of key figures from … Continue reading
Writing Business for sale on Ebay
This is a bit different… A friend is selling her established writing and literary gift website http://www.writersgifts.co.uk. on Ebay. The website sells the kinds of things any writer, would-be writer … Continue reading
THE WRITER’S JOURNEY TO PUBLICATION: an evening with Brighton’s bestselling authors
Keen to get published? Interested in the creative process? Local authors Julia Crouch, Simon Toyne, MD Lachlan, Emlyn Rees, Sarah Rayner and Kate Harrison have sold over a million books … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week: POETRY
This exercise comes from the poet Julia Darling who felt that often we write too literally, too logically or self-consciously, when some of our best work comes from imaginative leaps … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) LINDA NEWBERY
You may be able to cook a reasonable pasta dish, but you don’t therefore see yourself as rival to Gordon Ramsay or Nigella Lawson. Yet, for some reason, it’s a … Continue reading
NANOWRIMO five reasons why I am doing it this year (sort of).
1) Because I’m a slow writer. I want a stick of dynamite to blast me into novel number three while I’m editing novel number two. 2) Because I like the … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 