What it means to be a writer – Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
To be a writer is to sit down at one’s desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue … Continue reading
How self-published authors can stop shooting themselves in the foot
A lot of self-published authors ruin the book they have worked so hard to create by thinking they can design their own cover. Many want to shoehorn in a lot … Continue reading
A survey for marginalised writers, artists and creative people
Creative Future – an inspirational organisation based in south-east England but with a national reach – is researching the barriers that marginalised and disabled artists face in the UK when … Continue reading
Writing in Portugal – an update
September in Portugal – hours of sunshine, hours of writing under a big sky, a chance to experience a different side of Portuguese life…good company and good conversation about books … Continue reading
Why books are better at slow motion than film….Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the … Continue reading
Even badly-written science fiction has value – Robert Heinlein Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of … Continue reading
Join me on inspirational writing holidays in Portugal 2015 and 2016
GOOD WRITING is about discovering ways to break away from the ordinary and the routine, about finding stories that are important to you and telling them in the way only … Continue reading
What makes a good review? What makes a good reviewer?
Reviewers have probably never been so important. They have always been the life blood of an author’s career, but they are no longer the sole preserve of the ‘professional’, the … Continue reading
FREE WORLDWIDE — popular creative writing ebook: offer ends Sunday July 5th
From today until Sunday July 5th BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL is free to download from Amazon. Thirty exercises to set your imagination free and it won’t cost you a … Continue reading
Writers on bookshops and why we have to love them Quotes for Writers (and readers)
Word Power* is everything a book shop should be. It has a local bias, puts on interesting events, and is in a cool part of town. I like book shops … Continue reading
And the winner is….
Let me introduce you to Jan Baynham Jan joined a local writing group in Cardiff three years ago but it wasn’t until she attended a university writing class taught by … Continue reading
7 things you didn’t know about FACEBOOK (probably) + 3 rules I’ve made up
One in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook Most Facebook users live in Asia But only about 35% of people who live in Asia use Facebook Australians spend … Continue reading
Gabriel Garcia Marquez on what gave him permission to write…QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read ‘The Metamorphosis’. … Continue reading
Self-published Writers Encouraged to Enter Prestigious Competition
The Young Writer of the Year Award has been out of action for six years, but it now being revived under the sponsorship of The Sunday Times and agents Peters Fraser … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 