Monday Motivation: The writer as God, the world-builder
“He was drinking brandy, pouring double mouthfuls into a glass that had somehow survived from his grandfather’s time, the glass tinged green and bubbled with the air of the old […]
Writing Secrets: Break the rules like an artist
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso There’s a certain point at which writing skills must melt away and become […]
Monday Motivation: The genius of Stephen King
Stephen King wrote one of the best books ever published on writing. My bet is that you’re one of the thousands of aspiring writers who’ve read On Writing, and profited […]
Enjoy a bit of literary fun with a creative writing workshop in Muizenberg
Enjoy a bit of literary fun with All About Writing and Slow Life at our creative writing workshop at Casa Labia in Muizenberg. Be inspired by the cry of gulls as […]
Writing Secrets: How to sustain the fun of writing
New writers often ask whether they ought to be writing “for an audience”. It’s a complex question because, deep down, we all hope to be read by someone other than […]
Monday Motivation: You can’t write well if you don’t do this simple, difficult thing
Are there secrets to good writing? You know all the platitudes as well as I do, the ones that insist that it’s mostly a matter of sweat, and very little […]
Writing Secrets: A gathering of creative minds
We’re well into the second week of our annual Venice Writing Retreat, and it has struck me again, as it does every year, how creative it is to gather together […]
September Newsletter: Try something new
Adventures at the Venice Retreat We’re writing this in Venice where All About Writing is holding its annual writing retreat. This year we expanded the retreat to cover two weeks. […]
Monday Motivation: The science and mathematics of story telling
I am not qualified in any sense to make the following statement: Mathematical models in the field of physics and cosmology bear a truly remarkable resemblance to the reality they […]
Writing Secrets: How to find, or make, that room of your own
So here we are in Venice, for our annual All About Writing retreat. Everywhere we turn, there is another vista: the quiet canal, which runs down one side of our […]
Monday Motivation: Instructions for writing a winning manuscript
You’ve finished your last writing project. You might (oh, joy!) have sent it off to the publisher who’s promised to throw all their marketing heft behind it in order to […]
