Jozi Book Fair
The third edition of Jozi Book Fair will be held on 6, 7 & 8 August 2011 at Museum Africa in Newtown. Allaboutwriting will be at the Jozi Bookfair to discuss writing, reading and creativity. Visit our stand to talk about our Creative Writing Courses,and what we can offer you. We have courses for adults … Read more
Man Booker Prize fun and games
Join Allaboutwriting and Love Books on 5 October for some Man Booker Prize fun and games
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.
Genre doesn’t dictate quality
I recently saw this brilliant response to a criticism of chick lit. Michelle Gormon is a chick lit writer herself, published by Penguin. Her article appeared in The Guardian. “Critics cite many reasons in their dismissal of the genre, reasons that ostensibly aren’t rooted in literary snobbery. ‘The problem’ with chick-lit, I’m told, is that … Read more
Preparing for the writers life
I sometimes imagine all the unfinished novels in drawers. All the characters who will never finish their journeys; the stories that will never draw to an end.
Perhaps that in itself could be the starting point for a story. (Just an idea.) But why is it that so many people start out on their first novel with such enthusiasm, put so much effort and time into it, and then …?
