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Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week TITLES

Titles are hard to get right. The easy option is to go for a label – Sunday Afternoon, The Dream, A Walk in the Park and there are excellent precedents. … Continue reading →

January 21, 2013 · 8 Comments

Quotes for Writers (and people who lies quotes) E. L. Doctorow

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow Related articles … Continue reading →

January 20, 2013 · Leave a comment

Originally posted on The View Outside:
Continuing with our editing theme (i hope you’re finding these posts helpful) today, you’re in for a treat, because i have a very special…

January 17, 2013 · 1 Comment

Monday creative writing exercise because it’s a good way to start the week

What happened here on a damp February morning? And what did it have to do with a stolen handbag and the retired doctor who owns the building on the left? … Continue reading →

January 14, 2013 · Leave a comment

Quotes for Writers (and peope who like quotes) Lawrence Block

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that … Continue reading →

January 13, 2013 · 3 Comments

Free listings. Promote your creative events

WHAT THE DICKENS, the quarterly print magazine about all things creative, now has a new listings section. Get in touch if you want to promote courses retreats submissions competitions writing … Continue reading →

January 8, 2013 · 1 Comment

Brighton Book Group for Writers – this week ELIZABETH HAYNES

Louisa Stevenson, organisor of the Book group for Brighton Writers, just dropped me a line to remind me that author ELIZABETH HAYNES will be visiting the group on Wednesday at … Continue reading →

January 7, 2013 · 1 Comment

QUOTATIONS FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotations) LEO BABAUTA

Writers procrastinate on writing so much that the term “writer” is probably a misnomer. We should be called “putting things off-ists”. Leo Babauta

January 6, 2013 · 2 Comments

Dream Job?

Just seen this advert and it set me thinking… Editor, Poetry Review, The Poetry Society £30k-£33k pro rata, 2 days per week Published by the Poetry Society since 1912, Poetry … Continue reading →

January 4, 2013 · 6 Comments

Did you know what a Booker prize-winning author earned in 2011?

£15,000 Novelist and playwright James Kelman, winner of the Man Booker Prize and twice nominated for the International Man Booker Prize, revealed in a speech last month that all he … Continue reading →

January 2, 2013 · 4 Comments

WHAT the DICKENS magazine OUT NOW! 100 pages of creativity

Issue 7: The Journey Edition is in PRINT now thanks to a great bunch of folk who donated money via Sponsume. A preview of the magazine is still available online … Continue reading →

January 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the New Year – describing the homes of the rich and famous

Want to write about the seriously wealthy but when you look out the window for inspiration the view is dominated by grey pebbledash and black bin liners spilling a week … Continue reading →

December 31, 2012 · Leave a comment

Quotations for Writers (and people who like quotations) NICOLA MORGAN

Creative people are creative not because of where they get their ideas but because of what they do with them. That’s what creativity is; anyone can have an idea but a … Continue reading →

December 30, 2012 · Leave a comment

MONDAY CREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE because it’s a good way to start the Christmas holidays – writing with your senses

 I wrote about using smell in description a couple of weeks ago and I make no apologies for returning to it because it can create a whole world in a … Continue reading →

December 24, 2012 · 1 Comment

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