Allaboutwriting Writing Courses October to December 2011
Here are the courses and other activities that we have planned for the rest of the year for now – there might be a few more added at a later stage. Online Creative Writing Course – On going, start when it suits you and work at your own pace. Online Business Writing – On going, … Read more
Childrens Course and Writing Challenge
Fuel for Creative Sparks: Our July Holiday Junior Writing Course Unlock your child’s imagination with an introduction to creative writing – a four-day holiday course in Johannesburg that gets to grips with the four pillars of narrative storytelling as well as plenty of fun and “get out of your chair” exercises. Individual attention will ensure … Read more
The secret to great writing and dates to diarise
The secret to great writing Ernest Hemingway insisted that there is no secret to writing. “There is nothing to writing,” he wrote. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Google the question – What is the secret to good writing? – and you’ll get a million answers. They range from the … Read more
Creative Writing Course begins on January 26
Here’s to a creative and productive 2011! We hope you have a reading and writing programme at least as rewarding as 2010’s. First up are the dates of the courses we’ve scheduled for the first couple of months of the year. We’ll bring you more details of additional courses as the world turns. Creative Writing … Read more
2011 Courses Dates
We have a great array of courses planned for 2011 including a weekend course in McGregor in the Western Cape, a new business writing course, a travel and photography course and our new Growing Through Writing Course. Our next Creative Writing Course starts on 26 January. CREATIVE WRITING COURSE Start date: 26 January 2011 Duration: … Read more
A Writers’ Guide to Reading at Love Books
We have another lovely venue for Richard and Jo-Anne’s A Writers’ Guide to Reading so if you missed our Rand Club Library evening please join us at Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg on Tuesday 14 September at 5.30 for 6pm for about an hour. We would love to see you there.
Unlock the doors to your creativity
Do you feel a burning, not-to-be-denied desire to explore your creativity amidst a group of like-minded people all equally passionate about and committed to writing?
Test your imagination with this writing exercise
Here’s a writing trigger that we stumbled upon on the internet. Suggested by writer Yvette Amarlyse, it’s a prompt designed to catapult you out beyond the fences that, unknowingly, you’ve erected around you.
Last chance to sign up for Creative Writing Course
Allaboutwriting’s next Creative Writing Course begins on July 14 – and aims to banish mid-winter procrastination with healthy doses of creative stimulation. The face-to-face course is run by scriptwriter Richard Beynon and novelist Jo-Anne Richards. Participants meet once a week in Parkview, Johannesburg, for ten sessions. The course is designed to help participants explore their … Read more
Writing exercises galore
Well done to Linda Ravenhill winner of the May Boekehuis gift voucher. Click here to read Linda’s entry. We held our regular monthly Allaboutwriting/continued meeting last week and invite all of you to do the same exercise, under the same conditions. Send in your effort, and you’ll stand in line to win a Boekehuis or … Read more
