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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 flavour. To [...]

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 flavour. To [...]

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 summon the [...]

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 bloodless violence. But then, [...]

Do you want to write more in 2020? Perhaps you’ve promised yourself that this new year will finally be the year you’ll get back to your childhood passion, finish that novel you [...]

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 how incidental they may be to the [...]

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 [...]

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. He [...]

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, we have to [...]

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 trail of clues for us to [...]

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 home. This is how the [...]

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 on one of our courses or [...]