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This is the third in a series of blogs requested by our community. The series offers fundamental, easy to follow and very practical advice in twenty essential aspects of writing. Join our mailing [...]

Being a writer sometimes demands that you put on the mask and the costume of a moral philosopher. I’ve just heard three writers doing just that in a conversation they held about the ways in which [...]

  Enjoy a bit of literary fun with All About Writing and Slow Life when we present our Creative Saturday at Casa Labia in Muizenberg. Be inspired by the cry of gulls as you release your [...]

South Africa’s feature film industry is mushrooming – and, as a result, is in desperate need of good home-grown scripts. “South Africa has a booming film industry with world class technicians,” [...]

This is the second in a series of blogs requested by our community. The series will offer fundamental, easy to follow and very practical advice in twenty essential aspects of writing.   Join [...]

Stephen King said in On Writing that writing a story is a little like digging up a fossil. You spot a fragment of skull protruding from the rock. You carefully disinter that end of the fossil, [...]

Here’s a guest blog post by All About Writing community member Aimee-Claire Smith, who joined us on the McGregor Writing Retreat and is a recent graduate of our Creative Writing Course. In [...]

This is the first in a new series of blogs requested by our community. The series will offer fundamental, easy to follow and very practical advice in twenty essential aspects of writing.   [...]

I attended the Kingsmead Book Fair this weekend, until the knives of a stiff winter breeze drove me home. But I was there long enough to note down a phrase that the moderator of a session I [...]

This month’s challenge carries an exceptional prize: three books by members of our Allaboutwriting family, generously contributed by Pan Macmillan, Jacana, and Cactus Rain in the US. The winner [...]

The other day, someone told me she didn’t need writing instruction because “I have a gift”. I’m sure she’s right and I’m thrilled for her. But what is it about writing that inspires this kind of [...]

I struggled to get the hang of friendship, as a child.  Something would always shift: I would express a liking for the wrong band, or even the wrong hairband. And seemingly, without a word being [...]