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I recently spent a delightful hour chatting about all things writing with Tony Park, best-selling author of 18 novels set in Africa, and six non-fiction works. Our virtual Masterclass was […]

I find that I sometimes get so caught up in the convoluted complexities of my writing that I find myself mired, like a pith-helmeted explorer in quicksand, in my own […]

Something for writers of every flavour We’ve seen writers of every flavour in the 13 years since we started All About Writing. We’ve had young writers, older writers, first-time-picking-up-a-pen [...]

We checked in with a small handful of our community members to find out how their writing went this year: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Join the discussion, […]

The Pan Macmillan local publishing team hosted a webinar with All About Writing on 12 August 2020, which provided our community with an informative view of the publishing process, from […]

Join us and a community of fellow writers for a Saturday morning writing workshop. This time round, we’ll be looking at subtext and how you can use it to better tell stories. The workshop [...]

When I was at university, the writer whose new books we anticipated most was Kurt Vonnegut. He was cool. He was committed. He wrote books that straddled the line between […]

Those who are “given the job of telling stories,” according to Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, “should construct fictions that help seek the truth of the human condition”. I love her […]

Listen up: You’re at your desk, right? Or your dining room table, or your kitchen table, or, in desperation, perched on a stool at the marble credenza in your bathroom, […]

A publisher once told us that, halfway through an unpublished manuscript, she tries to predict how it will end. If she succeeds, she will likely pass on the manuscript or, […]

Always dreamed of writing a novel, short story, memoir, or biography? Or maybe you’ve already got one in a drawer somewhere, and you can’t stop thinking about going back to […]

I’m about to reach a milepost in these musings on the writer’s journey. I’ll soon be posting my 365th Monday Motivation. So, because I love symmetry, and because, for that […]