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    Monthly Archive for: "November, 2017"
     Writing Secrets: Believe in it – at least, if you expect us to
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted November 29, 2017

    Writing Secrets: Believe in it – at least, if you expect us to

    We’ve had someone on our mentoring programme who has been struggling for months with a story, which just hasn’t been coming together. The main character didn’t ring true. We couldn’t […]

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     Monday Motivation: How to write an effective sentence
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing
    Posted November 27, 2017

    Monday Motivation: How to write an effective sentence

    I’ve been thinking about sentences recently. They are, after all, the building blocks of every story ever written. We all love a good sentence, I think. I particularly like dazzlingly […]

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     Writing Secrets: Shut up and write – you’re not boring the readers
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 22, 2017

    Writing Secrets: Shut up and write – you’re not boring the readers

    One of our mentoring participants is busy writing a charming memoir about settling in a small community – trying to make friends and build a meaningful life among the sometimes […]

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     Monday Motivation: In the beginning…
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted November 20, 2017

    Monday Motivation: In the beginning…

    Annie Dillard in her book on what it takes to be a writer, The Writing Life, recounts the story of a fellow writer who was asked, “Do you think I […]

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     Writing Secrets: Fiction makes us better human beings
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 15, 2017

    Writing Secrets: Fiction makes us better human beings

    We all know people who think themselves morally or intellectually superior for reading non-fiction instead of fiction. And recently, the numbers of non-readers have been swelled by the digital [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Balancing act
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted November 13, 2017

    Monday Motivation: Balancing act

    The challenge I posed a group of scribblers was to write a scene in which a trivial disagreement masks much deeper conflict between two characters. How to insinuate the presence […]

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     Writing Secrets: It may be pacey, but take your time
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 8, 2017

    Writing Secrets: It may be pacey, but take your time

    One of our mentoring participants has held us in suspense for roughly 70 000 words. (In tranches of 5 000 words a month, that’s quite some wait). I’m not going to tell […]

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     Monday Motivation: Why do we write? Let me count the ways
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted November 6, 2017

    Monday Motivation: Why do we write? Let me count the ways

    Why do throngs of people around the world feel the urge to record their thoughts and feelings and observations, but, more than that, to shape them into narratives that engage […]

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     Eight trouble-shooting tips for NaNoWriMo
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 5, 2017

    Eight trouble-shooting tips for NaNoWriMo

    Getting stuck It’s a problem that most of us encounter from time to time. Here are a few suggested strategies for overcoming writer’s block: Think, the night before, about what […]

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     Write your way to an unbeatable end-of-year gift
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Writing Challenge
    Posted November 4, 2017

    Write your way to an unbeatable end-of-year gift

    All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers our most generous prize yet: a place on our brand-new online course, the Creative Writing Day by Day coaching programme, worth R2250, which [...]

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     Writing Secrets: Sentences aren’t strong men – don’t overburden them
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 2, 2017

    Writing Secrets: Sentences aren’t strong men – don’t overburden them

    I’ve been saying this a great deal to our mentoring participants recently: don’t weigh down your sentences. Don’t rush to get all you can into one sentence. Slow down, break […]

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     NaNoWriMo – ten tips to write your best story
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    By All About Writing
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted November 1, 2017

    NaNoWriMo – ten tips to write your best story

    Fifty thousand words in just thirty days. It’s a huge and exciting challenge. Anything that can help you will, we’re sure, be welcome. All About Writing has been helping writers create […]

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