Top Ten Monday Motivations from 2019 (Part 2)
Ever since we started All About Writing back in 2011, facilitator and writing coach Richard Beynon has been helping you start your week with some Monday Motivation, of the writerly […]
Top Ten Monday Motivations from 2019 (Part 1)
Ever since we started All About Writing back in 2011, facilitator and writing coach Richard Beynon has been helping you start your week with some Monday Motivation, of the writerly […]
Writing Secrets: Holidays can be creative (no, really).
Holidays are approaching. If you’re very lucky, it may give you time to write. You’re not usually expected at work and you’re not called upon (barring emergencies, of course) to […]
Monday Motivation: A master-class in character creation
I’ve not been a great Tarantino fan – not, at least, since the Kill Bill duet, which left me feeling unengaged and rather bored with all the operatic but strangely […]
Writing Secrets: How to make your writing vibrate with life
One of the reasons Dickens was such a great writer is that every character we encounter on his pages is vivid. He gives us just enough about each, no matter […]
December Newsletter: A thoroughly creative year was had by all
A thoroughly creative year was had by all Our participants have had a hugely creative and fulfilling year, judging by their communications. When our community is happy and effective in achieving [...]
Monday Motivation: The apostrophe catastrophe
I want to celebrate, but lament the demise of, the Society for the Protection of the Apostrophe, news of which calamitous event was announced by its 96-year-old founder, John Richards. […]
Announcing the winners of our October/November Flash Fiction Challenge
Excellent crop of entries for our “memoir ten years hence” writing challenge. I can’t think of a single entry that wasn’t interesting for one reason or another. But inevitably, sigh, […]
Writing Secrets: Revelations need not bash readers over the head
Readers are clever. They pick up the subtlest clues and don’t need the point hammered home for them. Last week I spoke about the subtle way Barbara Kingsolver leaves a […]
Monday Motivation: A cowlick, an expression of eagerness and a crooked grin
Ann Patchett, in her new novel, The Dutch House, has her two primary characters, a brother and sister, meet for the first time a woman their widowed father has brought […]
December / January Flash Fiction Challenge: Try a new perspective
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 to use […]
