Courtesy of the Bath Short Story Award people: To think about how to tighten your story in order to bring…
Some excellent advice from my great friend Emma Lombard, in this guest blog of hers. While we love it when…
For the short story writers out there, I found this by Billy Cowan, senior lecturer in creative writing at Edge…
I loved this simple advice read on a blog recently – here I’ve summarised the key points: Start with ACTION…
Christmas been and gone, and lovely to have my grown children here and walk the dog in the lovely Forest…
I’m currently devouring Renni Brown and Dave King’s book on self-editing where it suggests reading your work out loud. I…
I think of ‘weasel’ words as a subset of verbal tics, so I’ll start with the bigger picture. Verbal tics…
Great morning with Forest-born author Sarah Franklin at a local primary school learning about story writing. Sarah showed the students…
Several of us meet on a monthly basis for a two hour writing workshop. We chat a lot and laugh…
My office is a conservatory. It faces north which in the UK means it rarely gets direct sun so it’s…