Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: ROMANCE
This is a lucky dip romance…. Pick your numbers and you’ll have your characters, what brings them together and what keeps them apart. All you have to do is write…but … Continue reading
How to make music with words – Gary Provost QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The … Continue reading
Want to publish your book yourself? 12 things to consider before you start
By international bestselling novelist Sarah Rayner Let me cut to the chase. There is a huge amount out there about self-publishing, and I don’t want to double up on what other authors have already … 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
Five Quotes for Mother’s Day
…kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. … Continue reading
A Short Story is a like a knife…Michael Swanwick Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
A short story…can be held in the mind all in one piece. It’s less like a building than a fiendish device. Every bit of it must be cunningly made and … Continue reading
The difference between critics and artists – Picasso. Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. Pablo Picasso photo … Continue reading
You can write the best Valentine Day’s message ever…
Instead of a writing quote this Sunday, here is a quotation that will help you be orginal and witty and sincere (and still sound like you) Use Woody Allen as … Continue reading
Tell us about your dream creative writing course…and win
Can you help? At the Beach Hut Writing Academy* in Brighton we have lots of ideas for courses in 2016 . Completing a VERY short survey will help us pick … Continue reading
Seamus Heaney on falling in love with verbal music — Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
I was getting my first sense of crafting words and for one reason or another, words as bearers of history and mystery began to invite me. Maybe it began very … Continue reading
REDEMPTION SONG BLOG TOUR: Idiotic Idioms: ‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach’
I’m proud to be part of Laura Wilkinson’s blog tour celebrating her latest novel REDEMPTION SONG. Laura’s a bit of a renaissance woman: a writer of uputdownable stories, a gifted … Continue reading
What to do with your manuscript when it’s finished – David Mitchell. Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Send the thing out and forget it. Quickly get to work on the next thing. Don’t sit by the phone or watch your email. Don’t hope. You’ve done a big … Continue reading
Win a Holiday with a Short Story
There’s nothing not to like about this international writing competition. It’s run by a well-established writer’s retreat in Greece (so they know what they are doing). The prize is flexible. … Continue reading
How to hook a reader (or an agent) in 3 easy steps…
By Sally Apokedak, @sally_apokedak Part of the How They Do It Series on Fiction University American literary agent Sally Apokedak describes how to hook a reader in 3 easy steps. … Continue reading
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