NEW creative writing magazine in print for the very first time
Order the first print edition of WHAT THE DICKENS magazine now. It has been available on line for six editions but thanks to public support you can hold it in … Continue reading
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Today’s ‘Editing Advice’ comes from Joanne Phillips who’s blog is excellent for advice and tips on eBook publishing. Back in May Jo published her…
Did you know a cliche is…
a pre-moulded plate of common words/phrases used in hot metal printing. The English word is stereotype. Source: cracked.com where you will also discover the origins of nine other common words … Continue reading
FOUR things you should put in a covering letter to an agent or publisher and FOUR things you probably shouldn’t
It’s not hard to find advice for would-be/could-be novelists on how to write a synopsis of their manuscript, but there’s less attention paid to the first writing sample that the … Continue reading
MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the week – first person point of view
This exercise is about exploring first person point of view (I said, I thought…etc). You can work with any fairy tale you know well, but just in case your mind … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) RAYMOND CARVER
…all we have, finally, (is) the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they best say what they are … Continue reading
London’s deadly fog
60 YEARS AGO today London was smothered in a deadly smog. It was bitterly cold and very calm: no wind blew away the toxic air. Instead it lay over the … Continue reading
DID YOU KNOW about these famous rejections?
Towards the end of a course I often remind students that there are people who go to bed every night knowing that they once held the manuscript of Harry Potter … Continue reading
Editing Your NaNoWriMo Novel THREE BITE SIZE GUIDES TO EDITING AND REVISING THE FIRST DRAFTpart 3
PART THREE (You can see parts One and Two as guest posts at The View Outside) Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren’t the exclusive property of butchers. … Continue reading
Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) JOHN UPDIKE
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when … Continue reading
Editing Your NaNoWriMo Novel THREE BITE SIZE GUIDES TO EDITING AND REVISING THE FIRST DRAFT part 2
Show don’t tell is the command burnt into the heart of every creative writing student, but sometimes… …it’s ok to tell. Find out when and why in the second of … Continue reading
Editing your NaNoWriMo novel THREE BITE SIZE GUIDES TO EDITING AND REVISING THE FIRST DRAFT part 1
Despite my own less than fantastic word count in this year’s NaNoWriMo, Viki over at The View Outside has asked me to write about editing your NaNoWriMo novel. (Actually the … Continue reading
