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    Monthly Archive for: "June, 2019"
     Writing Secrets: No need for a war or a car chase on every page
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 26, 2019

    Writing Secrets: No need for a war or a car chase on every page

    So you’re writing the first pages of your novel and want to set up the fact that Linda is as happy as she could ever hope to be with her […]

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     Monday Motivation: Good writers say it simply
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 24, 2019

    Monday Motivation: Good writers say it simply

    It’s an old story oft told but one worth telling and retelling: simple is best, clear is most beautiful. It’s true that writing requires artifice and contrivance. Threaded through even […]

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     Writing Secrets: A character needs ‘oomph’ to power a story
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 19, 2019

    Writing Secrets: A character needs ‘oomph’ to power a story

    We recently advised one of our mentoring programme participants that a protagonist “lacked oomph”. The character ran away from problems and relied on others to rescue her. I didn’t respect […]

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     Monday Motivation: Start your writing day with a little jumping and climbing
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted June 17, 2019

    Monday Motivation: Start your writing day with a little jumping and climbing

    Start every morning with a little strenuous exercise. Well, of course it would be good for you to walk around the park, or swim twenty lengths, but I’m actually not […]

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     Writing Secrets: One magical point for better writing
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 12, 2019

    Writing Secrets: One magical point for better writing

    Remember just this one magical point, and you’ll be an infinitely better writer for it. There’s great power in specific details. I was recently asked: “But surely some specific details, […]

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     June Newsletter: Writing tips galore
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Newsletters
    Posted June 11, 2019

    June Newsletter: Writing tips galore

    Two workshops in two towns – as removed as winter is from summer All About Writing split itself in two this past week to offer writing advice on different continents […]

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     Monday Motivation: A meditation on dialogue
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 10, 2019

    Monday Motivation: A meditation on dialogue

    Let us consider all the things that dialogue can do: It enables us to elicit and transmit information: “What’s the time?” “It’s a quarter to four.” That but information can […]

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     Unveiling the winners of our April/May Writing Challenge
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Writing Challenge
    Posted June 7, 2019

    Unveiling the winners of our April/May Writing Challenge

    Hey ho, to the winner’s podium we go for the April/May Writing Challenge. (Here are the details on our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge). What we asked you to do, if […]

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     Writing Secrets: Writing takes thought – so look beyond the obvious
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Jo-Anne Richard's blog, Tips for Writers
    Posted June 5, 2019

    Writing Secrets: Writing takes thought – so look beyond the obvious

    Let’s look beyond the obvious in the old tenets of writing advice. We all know that “showing” is supposed to be better than “telling”. We know, for instance, that we […]

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     Enter our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge for a literary assessment or a voucher
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    By Jo-Anne Richards
    In Writing Challenge
    Posted June 4, 2019

    Enter our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge for a literary assessment or a voucher

    All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 / £ 150 or a voucher to the same value […]

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     Monday Motivation: Three ways in which your writing could misfire – and how to fix it
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Beynon's blog
    Posted June 3, 2019

    Monday Motivation: Three ways in which your writing could misfire – and how to fix it

    Mishaps happen all the time in writing. Most of them are little niggles, easily erased during a light edit. In one chapter the stable boy has a shock of blond […]

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    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 Program.  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 first in the series is #pleasuresoftheharbours by #adamkethro published by @tmpublishers
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    In this first Monday Motivation of 2023, Richard c In this first Monday Motivation of 2023, Richard considers that essential element of every memorable story: Voice. What precisely is it, and how do you develop it? http://ow.ly/Tr1N50MxoPq  #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #MondayMotivation #writersofinstagram
    You don’t have to spend 20 years learning to be You don’t have to spend 20 years learning to be the best writer you can be. Our flagship Creative Writing Course contains everything we wish we’d known when we were starting out as writers. http://ow.ly/iLt450Mv2uA 
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    Achieve your writing dreams with the help of an in Achieve your writing dreams with the help of an inspiring and supportive community. Join our Writers' circle today! http://ow.ly/bFRR50MrNi4 #amwriting #creativewriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #writingmotivation #writersofinstagram
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