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Part two of our Q&A with Michéle Rowe, who designed and runs our ‘How to Write a Screenplay’ course with Richard Beynon. Michéle has followed her passion for story telling from television to [...]

There is a kind of beauty in clarity and accuracy that can’t be achieved by even the most skillful deployment of rhetoric. I’ve been reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier […]

We are a nation of extraordinary stories, and producers and content providers are always looking for good, skilled writers to craft these into the medium of film. The question is […]

Characters need to be active participants in their own fate. This might sound like obvious advice but I’ve been reading a number of manuscripts recently in which events simply overtake […]

Tracy Todd, a past mentoring participant launches her memoir, Brave Lotus Flower Rides the Dragon, on February 23 at the Riverside Mall, in Mbombela (Nelspruit). More than anything, this is […]

I have a much-published and much-lauded novelist friend who manages, among the messy accoutrements of life – getting children to school, a day job, his various marital responsibilities; you know, [...]

Many people tell us that, when they first come to our Creative Writing Course, we ruin reading for them. I usually say they should be so lucky. They’re learning to […]

Tracy Todd, a past mentoring participant published her memoir, Brave Lotus Flower Rides the Dragon,  More than anything, this is a love story – a tale of courage and transcendence, […]

I listened recently to a BBC programme devoted to the subject of failure. The presenter wondered why heroic failures – Scott, who failed to reach the South Pole, Irvine and […]

Write a love story in 140 characters – perfect for tweeting love in a time of global division.  Tweet your entry to @allabtwriting or, if you’d prefer, email your entry […]

“Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that [...]

I’m falling in love – with long sentences. I have come across a number in a novel called The Nix by Nathan Hill. (The New York Times said of Hill […]