A Not Very Serious Exercise: an extract from Back to Creative Writing School
Far better to write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all – Katherine Mansfield This is an extract from an exercise on writing lipograms. You might want to mention … Continue reading
A Cliché Killing Writing Exercise: an extract from BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL
EVERY SATURDAY for the month of January I’m going to share some exercises from my popular writing guide Back To Creative Writing School – I want it to be a creative kickstart … Continue reading
Description Writing Exercise: an extract from BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL
EVERY SATURDAY for the month of January I’m going to share some exercises from my popular writing guide Back To Creative Writing School – I want it to be a … Continue reading
Bargain price of £4 for a few more hours…(then it’s back to normal £6.99)
Back in March I cut the price of my popular paperback guide from £6.99 to a straightforward £4 and wrote this on my Amazon page. HUGE PRICE CUT because creativity … Continue reading
START THE WEEK with a Creative Writing Exercise
A very straightforward creative writing exercise …all you have to do is write and keep on writing until you’ve managed to incorporate all the words on the scrabble board. To … Continue reading
An exercise that can help you travel back in time – sensory description in memoir writing
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 Adapted from Back to … Continue reading
Until we can party again – I’ve slashed the price of my creative writing guide
Back To Creative Writing School is now just £4 which is the lowest price it has ever been. And it’s going to stay that low until I can: Browse in … Continue reading
Writing Workshop with a Bestselling Novelist – it’s a Brighton experience like no other
Running workshops with a bestselling novelist in her Brighton home was an experiment. I’ve known Sarah Rayner for years as an inspirational novelist who writes about serious subjects – bereavement, … Continue reading
A blatant plug for a facebook page
I don’t often mention my facebook page Back to Creative Writing School but I realised that perhaps I should when a loyal follower of this blog contacted me in dismay … Continue reading
Big Reduction! Christmas Sale of Creative Writing Book
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas – at last. I’ve had decorators in since early October and yesterday evening the last one left. I’ve made that sound as … Continue reading
SAVE! £1 (and 1$ and 1 euro) off Back to Creative Writing School — one week only
My writing guide currently has 118 reviews on Amazon.UK and 25 on Amazon US (and I’ve just discovered that there are reviews on most European sites as well as Canada … Continue reading
Do exercises really help writers to write?
Kate Mosse, bestselling author of Labyrinth, says that writers ought to practice writing in much the same ways as musicians practice the scales. She is not alone in suggesting that … Continue reading
Help! I’m looking for a writing group somewhere in France that wrote to me…
I have a ton of reasons why I didn’t respond immediately. The organiser of the English-speaking, English-writing group dropped me a line sometime around December 5th – 8th. I can … Continue reading
Half Price until midnight – my own mini Black Friday
Amazon have put the paperback edition of BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL into their Black Friday sale but only for a few hours. It’s £3 until midnight instead of the … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 