The wonderful thing about writing is that you can show us our everyday lives, so that we recognise every detail of it, or you can make us believe in, even […]
I wonder if I might, this week, trip lightly through a not-very-well tended garden of thoughts about writing, readers and books. There’s no theme connecting these thoughts; they are if […]
Michéle Rowe, who designed and runs our ‘Screenwriting Crash Course’ course with Richard Beynon, has followed her passion for story telling from television to film to crime writing. [...]
What is a “darling” anyway, and why should it be murdered? I was asked this in a workshop recently, and it brought me up short. We are used, as writers, […]
Are you offended by the ripe language that so many modern novels seem to relish? By their apparently gratuitous use of the f-word and the c-word, to mention just the […]
Love has inspired writers for centuries. Some of the greatest writers of history concerned themselves with love as a theme or subject, such as Kahlil Gibran and Shakespeare. To this […]
All About Writing provides aspirant script and screenwriters with both the skills and advice they’ll need to turn good ideas (we’ll even help you with those!) into the sorts of […]
There are times when you just have to let go of a project. Last week, I spoke about having faith; putting in the hours even though your manuscript is a […]
Not everyone you encounter – or create – has a dome-like head, or eyebrows that bristle comically, or sports a distinctive portwine mark on her cheek, or is invariably accompanied, […]
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 […]
In a Creative Writing class I was teaching recently, I suggested that, if you’re not sure of an aspect of your writing – like which point of view would be […]
Never has so much excellent television drama been produced across the world – and binge-watching has become the not-so-secret addiction of millions. This has put pressure on local South African [...]