This came up on a twitter feed during #Revpit. It’s so encouraging, every writer should have a copy over their…
This link to the indefatigable Chris Fielden’s site is great for workshops for kids and adults or for your own…
This blog post from Retreat West is very much worth a read – for me, it was a light bulb…
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…
I’m currently devouring Renni Brown and Dave King’s book on self-editing where it suggests reading your work out loud. I…
This post appeared, updated from the original, in the July 2021 writer’s corner of my newsletter. If you’d like to…
I’m into the last few pages of Stephen King’s On Writing and wondering why I hadn’t read it before –…