Monday Writing Motivation: The three bronze rules of writing funny
Recently, preparing for a webinar on the role of humour in stories, I totted up the number of television comedies I’ve written. It comes to somewhere in the region of […]
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Free Webinar: How to add humour to your toolkit of writing skills
Humour is an indispensable ingredient of creative writing – and yet it’s a subject that is very seldom raised in writing courses or in books on creative writing. It enlivens […]
February/March Flash Fiction Challenge: And here are the winners…
This challenge – to write an intriguing opening to a novel – wrung wonderful response from you, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Vying for top position are two entries that would […]
Monday Writing Motivation: An insouciant and flippant disregard for the truth
Language is capable of making the subtlest of distinctions. In our quest to move the story along, we sometimes forget about this awesome power. We write as if the world […]
Hero’s Journey Course: Bookings now open with an early bird special!
Want rich and practical insights into structuring a story, a novel, a screenplay or a memoir? Insights that’ll help you not only shape your story for best dramatic effect, but […]
Creative Writing Workshop: What do they do while your characters talk, and why does it matter?
Dialogue can make or break a story. How do you write a scene which doesn’t sound like a tick-tock conversation taking place in a void? Sign up for our Saturday […]
Monday Writing Motivation: Maggie O’Farrell’s guide to research
Some years ago, on our creative writing course, one of our students told us of her dream: to write a novel about the relations between men and women in 13th […]
