Give your writing an instant makeover As writers, we continue to learn from each other through our lives. This month we thought we’d share one of the crucial lessons our […]
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 […]
Join film and television writers, Michele Rowe and Richard Beynon, for a chance to ask everything you always wanted to know about writing for the screen, whether for film or […]
The significant detail can usually nail a description, or pierce to the essence of a character. Think of the sentence from a Guy de Maupassant story: “He was a gentleman […]
Silly question. Of course it does. More than ever, now that we are largely home-bound and spend so much time on the internet. This is the time to collect all […]
Travel writing when there is no travel? Exactly. And here’s why. This is the perfect moment to recall those incredible journeys, the ones you always wanted to tell everyone about. […]
You don’t need to feel strongly about a theme or subject to write about it. In fact, I think it’s a disadvantage. I dislike theme-heavy fiction. I find it heavy-handed […]
There are two kinds of people in the world, as I think someone else might have said before me: people who are more comfortable in the world of make-believe; and […]
Can you believe it, it’s Wednesday again… We’ve lost track of how many Wednesdays there’ve been under lockdown, but what we do know is that we’ve run seven of our […]
In the nineteen-eighties, a writer named Elizabeth Tallent published four novels, and her short stories appeared frequently in The New Yorker. Then followed a 22-year silence. She has broken it [...]
Suspense, in fiction, is created when we pose questions and then delay giving the answers. The reader, eager to find out those answers, will read on. But how about life? […]