Archives

I’m a great one for fooling myself, because so much about writing can make you sad. Saying goodbye to a great idea because it doesn’t carry your current story forward, or fit the personality of [...]

I think I might indulge myself and write a little meditation on prejudice, judgement and forgiveness both in life and in literature. What prompts this? Well, it was a piece I recently read in the [...]

Want to see your name in lights? We launch our first Screenwriting Crash Course of 2019 in a week’s time. It is, we think not quite modestly, a really good course, both practical and inspiring. [...]

Should you allow your characters to run off with the story? I was asked this again recently while teaching a Summer School course on fiction writing at a local university. It’s a romantic idea [...]

We launch our first Screenwriting Crash Course of 2019 in a week’s time. It is, we think not quite modestly, a really good course, both practical and inspiring. The question is: why learn to [...]

The winners of our December-January Writing Challenge are…  We had a great sheaf of entries for our Challenge which went like this: Describe a seaside holiday house, from the perspective of a [...]

You’re sitting opposite someone on a train. She is deeply engaged in a book and you take the liberty of examining her closely. She’s attractive and you enjoy your silent interrogation of her [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 or a voucher to the same value to use on one (or more) of our courses or [...]