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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 [...]
