Safari Saturday searching the web for writers and readers — research for crime writers
Defrosting Cold Cases is a blog set up by Alice de Sturler and based in Virginia, USA. In the past she has worked in universities and for the human rights … Continue reading
Wanna be a Writer Part Two — watch the television pilot and find out why readers are like baby ducklings…
Last month I wrote about the pilot of a new reality television show featuring real wanna-be writers getting advice from professionals. It’s pioneered by Jane Wenham-Jones, novelist and author of … Continue reading
Four and a Half of the Best Fathers in Fiction
Yesterday the Turkish author Elif Shafak named her choice for the five best mothers in literature in the Daily Telegraph. It’s a subject close to her heart as her memoir … Continue reading
Monday creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week. Character study
You are in some kind of a waiting room: the accident and emergency department of a hospital, attending a job interview, waiting to be interviewed by the police after witnessing … Continue reading
Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes) Virginia Woolf on reading
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to … Continue reading
Safari Friday (ooops Saturday) searching the web for writers and readers — creating the perfect atmosphere to write
I was directed to this writing aid by Vikki Thompson’s blog who in turn discovered it from Hunting Down Writing. What is it? A virtual coffee shop piped to your … Continue reading
Monday creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week. Link the three pictures….because there’s a story to tell
Don’t censor yourself just write. Don’t cross out. Just write. Try to keep your hand moving across the page or the keyboard. A lot of what you are going to … Continue reading
Dot Dot Dot…my part in a digital writing relay team
This was fun. New Writing South, the literary organistion for south east England, have put a modern, multimedia spin on the traditional game of Consequences as part of Brighton’s Digital … Continue reading
Wanted: a wine drinker who can write
Pavilion Books, in association with The Circle of Wine Writers, run an annual award to help develop promising new wine writers. To enter you have to write 1500 on any … Continue reading
Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes) characters
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper … Continue reading
Hurry! Sketches wanted for a new BBC radio comedy
2525 is a new Radio 4 audience sketch show set 500 years in the future. Alongside a commissioned writing team, the BBC is inviting non-commissioned writers to send in their … Continue reading
Safari Friday searching the web for writers and readers — a new home for short stories on the web
Like short stories? Want to read more or find a home for those you write? ReadWave – a short story website based in London that has attracted a big following … Continue reading
Experimental writing at Brighton Digital festival
RICHARD HEARN of Paragraph Planet is back to explain about Geo-Writing at the Digital Festival and how everyone can get involved. Geo-writing is an experimental project in which writers can … Continue reading
Flash Fiction with an edge at Brighton Digital Festival
The Brighton Digital Festival is currently running throughout September and there’s a whole host of events and opportunities for writers. Today and tomorrow RICHARD HEARN writer, magazine columnist and creator of … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 