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    Monthly Archive for: "August, 2017"
     Monday Motivation: How to get unstuck
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted August 28, 2017

    Monday Motivation: How to get unstuck

    I spoke a week or two ago about getting stuck in a piece of writing, and having to work out what the problem is before you can push on. That […]

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     Monday Motivation: Don’t roll your eyes, madam, at me
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing, Monday Motivation
    Posted August 21, 2017

    Monday Motivation: Don’t roll your eyes, madam, at me

    He uses variants of the phrase “he rolled his eyes” four times in Open Season; three times in the next book in the series, Savage Run; thirteen times in his […]

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     Monday Motivation: The devil’s in the detail
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted August 14, 2017

    Monday Motivation: The devil’s in the detail

    Today we crossed London from Paddington Basin in the heart of the West End to Limehouse Basin in the east. It’s a journey of nine miles, and descends through twelve […]

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    By All About Writing
    In Screenwriting courses
    Posted August 11, 2017

    If you’re serious about screenwriting, then this is the course you need

    Devising a movie treatment is difficult, and the producer you present it to unforgiving. If the story doesn’t grab him (or her) at once and if the characters are not compelling […]

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     August Newsletter:  Words on water or immortal prose?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing, Newsletters
    Posted August 8, 2017

    August Newsletter: Words on water or immortal prose?

    Trish and I have just spent six weeks slowly working our way down the Thames River in our narrowboat Patience. We’re on the Grand Union Canal now, moored up in […]

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     Monday Motivation: When a lock becomes the key
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing
    Posted August 7, 2017

    Monday Motivation: When a lock becomes the key

    We’d come off the tidal Thames – a writhing, contained beast of a river whose coils you can feel flexing beneath the surface of the water – onto the Grand […]

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     August Writing Challenge
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    By All About Writing
    In All About Writing, Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions
    Posted August 6, 2017

    August Writing Challenge

    Your challenge for August is to write a scene set on or around water. That might be a river, the sea, a pond or a swimming pool. It might even, […]

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     And the winner of the July Writing Challenge is…
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Writing Challenge, Writing Competitions
    Posted August 5, 2017

    And the winner of the July Writing Challenge is…

    Last month we dedicated our writing challenge to the creation of a creative community without borders, by sharing an international flash fiction contest, organised by the César Egido Serrano [...]

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    Congratulations to our February/March Flash Fictio Congratulations to our February/March Flash Fiction Challenge winner, Marion Low. And to the runners-up: @carriejsteenekamp, @Linda_Ravenhill,  @Opheliha79, @celiafleming327 and @mitzibunce. Read all the entries here: ow.ly/ypa250Oq3bX 
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    What can a gander and his dame, and a clutch of go What can a gander and his dame, and a clutch of goose eggs, teach us about an important strategy of story telling? You can find out in this week’s Monday Motivation.
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    We learned so much at this year's fantastic @londo We learned so much at this year's fantastic @londonbookfair 📚 these were our top takeaways - which one is your favourite? Let us know in the comments 😊 

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    Our latest newsletter is crammed with writing tips Our latest newsletter is crammed with writing tips and tricks. Our blog series, The Hidden Secrets of Writing, provides value and concrete writing tips. 

We hope that the series will inspire you to (perhaps with a bit of help from us) write that book you’ve been aching to write. Or, if you have a draft, to write and polish it to a publishable standard. You never know, yours may just be one of the fortunate books to make it past the manuscript stage and join our hallowed list.

Everything we offer is designed to help you become a better writer. 

Check it all out now: https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/05/10/may-newsletter/
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    In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard spells In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard spells out the logic behind his conclusion that complacency is one of our greatest enemies. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/05/08/enemy-of-good-writing/  #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram #writingmotivation
    Photo highlights from blissful time spent with the Photo highlights from blissful time spent with these amazing writers at this year's Barrydale retreat! A big thanks to the @karooart_hotel for hosting us and to the Joannes for leading the retreat ☀️🏞️

We had a fantastic memoir writing weekend workshop, followed by a week in gorgeous surroundings, supporting & developing writing projects of all kinds ✍️

You're always guaranteed a beautiful, scenic location to relax in & ignite your inspiration when you join our writing retreats. Fancy coming along to the next one? Location details & info on the last slide 👀 see you there 😊

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