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    Monthly Archive for: "July, 2018"
     Monday Motivation: Exercise with Paul Auster
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted July 30, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Exercise with Paul Auster

    Paul Auster is the author of seventeen novels, the latest of which, 4-3-2-1, was published last year and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. I bought it back then, but […]

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     Writing Secrets: What do reading and magic carpets have in common?
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted July 25, 2018

    Writing Secrets: What do reading and magic carpets have in common?

    Specific details are magical. That was the gist of my blogs over the past couple of weeks: give us just one or two specific details, and we’ll be transported to […]

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     Monday Motivation: Writing is the sea we swim in
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    By Richard Beynon
    In All About Writing
    Posted July 23, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Writing is the sea we swim in

    We’re back on Patience in this new warm English weather that seems to have become a fixture here. All around us lie a fleet of narrowboats: Patricia and Star, Bess […]

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     Writing Secrets: It’s good for you – and it’s fun
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted July 18, 2018

    Writing Secrets: It’s good for you – and it’s fun

    Reading fiction is good for us – and that’s not one writer’s opinion, but the conclusion of neuroscientific research. Studies have shown that the language of fiction: imaginative metaphors, [...]

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     Learn the secrets to great stories at our Stow Story Weekend
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Creative Writing Courses
    Posted July 17, 2018

    Learn the secrets to great stories at our Stow Story Weekend

    Stories drive us. They’re what help us make meaning – and so, sense of our world. They help us make decisions about our own existence. Stories of one sort or […]

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     Monday Motivation: The glue that holds story together
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted July 16, 2018

    Monday Motivation: The glue that holds story together

    I want to talk today about the remarkable properties of glue when it comes to assembling story. You remember what E.M. Foster said about the difference between story and life? […]

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     Writing Secrets: It might feel magical – but it’s not a mystical process
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted July 11, 2018

    Writing Secrets: It might feel magical – but it’s not a mystical process

    “Wow, that was like watching a movie.” This was the response of a participant in my Creative Writing Course to the writing of a fellow – and it came as […]

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     July Newsletter: Anyone can learn to write – here’s how.
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Newsletters
    Posted July 10, 2018

    July Newsletter: Anyone can learn to write – here’s how.

    Anyone can learn to write It was five weeks into my current face to face Creative Writing Class on Monday. The participants had been reading their assignments out for comment […]

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     Monday Motivation: Total dedication to the craft
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted July 9, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Total dedication to the craft

    This is not a puff-piece. It’s rather a salute to the sort of commitment to the craft of writing that we could all learn from. It’s inspired by one of […]

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     Writing Secrets: The power of the specific
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In All About Writing, Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted July 4, 2018

    Writing Secrets: The power of the specific

    Use specifics to draw us in. That’s the key to writing well. Give us the particular, we’ll expand it, if necessary, to visualise the whole. I find this type of […]

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     Monday Motivation: Writing is both a gift and a burden
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted July 2, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Writing is both a gift and a burden

    One of the most succinct definitions of art that I’ve ever come across is this: Art is repetition with variation. After all, there’s no real conceptual difference between Michaelangelo’s David, [...]

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    Do you dream about writing a memoir? Find out ever Do you dream about writing a memoir? Find out everything you want to know at our free webinar with @JoanneHichens (Death and the After Parties @karavanpress) and 
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    An impressive congregation of writers gathered for An impressive congregation of writers gathered for the inaugural @booksonthebay literary festival in Simon's Town. Here are some of our top tips from incredible South African writers such as Damon Galgut, @finuala_dowling, @littlegreenlions, Jo-Anne Richards, @janglazewski, @fred_maurice_devries and more http://ow.ly/T3r250No3fg 
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    Are we only interested, as writers, in what is cle Are we only interested, as writers, in what is clear and unambiguous – or should we ferret about in the contested territory between truth and lies? That’s the question Richard explores in this Monday’s Motivation. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/03/20/boundries_dissolve/ #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
    Want to write your story? Escape with us to focus Want to write your story? Escape with us  to focus on your writing and creativity at the beautiful @karooart_hotel. Join us for a memoir weekend and/or a five-day retreat. Joanne Hichens ('Death and the After Parties' @karavanpress ) and Jo-Anne Richards (The Innocence of Roast Chicken @panmacmillansa) will teach you the tricks of the trade and mentor you and provide personal guidance. 

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    Congratulations to our December/January Flash Fict Congratulations to our December/January Flash Fiction Challenge winner, @emily_hart6. And the runners-up: @Linda-Ravenhill, Channon Saunderson, @mitzibunce, and Liz Lewis.  https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/03/15/dec-jan-2022-3-winners/
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    In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard interr In this week’s Monday Motivation, Richard interrogates an intriguing argument made by a recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in her acceptance speech. https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/2023/03/13/whys-of-fiction/ #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
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