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    Monthly Archive for: "June, 2018"
     Writing Secrets: Listen for your character’s place in the world
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 27, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Listen for your character’s place in the world

    Develop a character’s voice well and we’ll immediately understand more about their world view and their place in the world. Last week, I spoke about the importance of voice for […]

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     Monday Motivation: The Writer, the Hero, and his Journey
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 25, 2018

    Monday Motivation: The Writer, the Hero, and his Journey

    Let me make a quite unremarkable observation that writing a story is, in its own right, a Hero’s Journey. Join me as I trace the Writer’s Journey over the course […]

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     Writing Secrets: It’s voice that allows us to share their highs and lows
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 20, 2018

    Writing Secrets: It’s voice that allows us to share their highs and lows

    Develop your character’s voice if you want us to share in their highs and lows, get to know them and care about them. But what does that really mean? Sure, […]

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     Monday Motivation: When gobbledygook makes senses
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 18, 2018

    Monday Motivation: When gobbledygook makes senses

    Primer is a little movie that was made (and written, and edited and starred in) by a guy called Shane Carruth. It’s one of those legendary stories that buzz around […]

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     Writing Secrets: What’s the secret to getting published?
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 13, 2018

    Writing Secrets: What’s the secret to getting published?

    I was asked this again just the other day, and my heart always sinks: “How can I get my book published?” I understand, I really do. I know the feeling […]

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     Monday Motivation: Buttresses and rickety walls
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 11, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Buttresses and rickety walls

    It’s called “argument by authority” and all the best rhetoricians frown on it. A bad argument, they say, is not improved by quoting an authoritative voice in support of it. […]

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     June Newsletter: Let’s hear it for the bad guy
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Newsletters, Writing Challenge
    Posted June 8, 2018

    June Newsletter: Let’s hear it for the bad guy

    This month we’re going to stand up for the bad guy. Not only will our new competition back him, but we thought it worth giving a little thought to the […]

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     April/May writing challenge results
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    By All About Writing
    In All About Writing, Writing Challenge
    Posted June 6, 2018

    April/May writing challenge results

    An excellent crop of entries for this competition. Remember what the challenge was? A reminder: “Your perspective character finds a body – he or she could be a detective, but […]

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     Writing Secrets: Tips for making reading an immersive experience
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 6, 2018

    Writing Secrets: Tips for making reading an immersive experience

    A character is running through a crowd. She elbows passers-by, bumps into someone, shoves aside a group… Okay, we know what she’s doing, but we’re not there with her. Not […]

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    By All About Writing
    In Writing Challenge
    Posted June 4, 2018

    June/July Writing Challenge: Time to get opinionated (and win a literary report)

    All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a mini book report on the first 5000 words of your manuscript (or detailed feedback on 5000 words of writing) worth […]

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     Monday Motivation: Machines for thinking
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing
    Posted June 4, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Machines for thinking

    Book festivals are taking over the world – or at least limited patches of it. James Naughtie, who helms a number of book programmes for the BBC, was present at […]

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    By All About Writing
    In All About Writing
    Posted June 1, 2018

    Cape Town Creative Writing Course: 3 alumni share how All About Writing changed their lives

    Dr Adalbert Ernst was passionate about English, but became an anaesthetist. It was during a period of burn-out that he realised he’d been “robbed of something fundamental”. Gail Gilbride, [...]

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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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