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    Monthly Archive for: "January, 2018"
     You can achieve your writing dreams
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Newsletters, Tips for Writers, Writing Competitions
    Posted January 29, 2018

    You can achieve your writing dreams

    Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What does every would-be writer need to achieve their dreams? You would probably say: time and space. Yet writers have created great literature in half [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Here’s an addiction worth cultivating
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted January 22, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Here’s an addiction worth cultivating

    I often contemplate the power of habitual behaviour. I observe it daily in our cats. One habitually sits with his front paws – I tend to think of them as […]

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     The art of writing great scenes
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Creative Writing Courses
    Posted January 20, 2018

    The art of writing great scenes

    The building blocks of drama We all recognize the scenario. We’ve got the story – or at least the beginning and the end – in our heads. We know our […]

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     Writing Secrets: There’s a time to write and a time … to contemplate
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted January 17, 2018

    Writing Secrets: There’s a time to write and a time … to contemplate

    There is a time when writing requires contemplation for ideas to coalesce. To write you need sometimes to daydream; to allow your thoughts to roam aimlessly. But this is dangerous […]

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     Monday Motivation: Oh what stories you could tell
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted January 15, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Oh what stories you could tell

    Were you anticipating 2018 with any relish? We usually do look forward to the new year with some degree of excited anticipation. The world conspires to encourage us to do […]

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     Writing Secrets: Keep staring at the screen
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted January 10, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Keep staring at the screen

    Stare at the screen. That’s my advice for the week. I know, holidays are over, we’re all back at work and now we’re faced with the reality of those good […]

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     Monday Motivation: A single, simple premise
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted January 8, 2018

    Monday Motivation: A single, simple premise

    I haven’t seen Lady Bird, winner of one of the top awards at the Golden Globes last night, but I have read the script – and one of its features […]

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     Writing Secrets: The new year’s promise
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Tips for Writers
    Posted January 3, 2018

    Writing Secrets: The new year’s promise

    I keep hearing people say they disapprove of new years’ resolutions. They believe it sets them up for failure and causes disillusion and self-hatred. You know that gym membership…? Only […]

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    In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard return In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard returns to George Saunders’s "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain" for a piece of profound insight into revision – and the development of a writer’s voice. http://ow.ly/iCsO50MKwyf #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
    Here's the latest in our 'hidden secrets of writin Here's the latest in our 'hidden secrets of writing' blog series, highlighting books published by past students of our Creative Writing Course or Mentoring Programme. Read an extract, check out the  writing skills and techniques we identify, and learn from the tips suggested by our analysis of the passage. Today we look at a passage from Limerence by Vincent Pienaar published by  @penguinrandon
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    What skills do you need as a writer? Here are ten What skills do you need as a writer? Here are ten skills you need to master to write compelling fiction or creative non-fiction. http://ow.ly/MX0C50MFcgT #aspiringauthors #writersofinstagram #writers #writing #amwriting #fiction #nonfiction #writingtips #writingadvice #authortips #authoradvice #writeradvice #writertips #writersecrets #writingclarity #writingcommunity #getpublished
    Check out our new blog series, The hidden secrets Check out our new blog series, The hidden secrets of writing, highlighting books published by past students of our Creative Writing Course or Mentoring Programme. We'll take an extract, identify writing skills and techniques and offer a tip or two (or three) suggested by our analysis of the chosen passage. The third in the series is Brave Lotus Flower Rides the Dragon by Tracy Todd @bravelotusflower published by @tmpublishers
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    Writers love deadlines, don't they? Last minute de Writers love deadlines, don't they? Last minute deadlines... Enter our December/January Flash Fiction Challenge by midnight on 31 January and stand a chance to win a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 / £ 150 or a voucher to the same value to use on one of our courses or programmes. Good luck!

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    In his Monday Motivation this week, Richard explor In his Monday Motivation this week, Richard explores (with the help of a swan) the idea that the magic of art rests on the invisible scaffolding that artifice provides. http://ow.ly/3zjT50MEr7N #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
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